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[whooshing]

[cheerful music]

[Erica] A resume.

It tells a story.

School, job, hobbies, it's a snapshot of who we are.

I mean what makes the best impression?

The Masters in English Lit, for sure.

I don't know.

I don't know I think you should go with work experience.

I mean Client Representative has heft.

Heft, no it doesn't I was a glorified operator, Judith.

Okay the Masters then.

[Erica] And at the end of the day,

it all comes down to the choices we've made.

This, this, this is what

I've done with my life in 10 years, wow.

I did a huge workup list search for you.

Thank you!

[Judith] Pulled out everything

I thought might interest you.

Okay, what do we got here?

Jobs in education,

advertising,

mortuary science?

Baby Boomers are dying off!

Hey wait a minute, publishing!

I like books.

Yeah you love books!

That is why I included at least a dozen publisher jobs.

I feel strangely excited!

[squeals]

Why don't you come over tonight and celebrate?

Ethan is coming to town from Montreal, total last minute.

The three of us, we'll crack open a bottle of wine.

Wine?

Or fizzy grape juice stuff, I'm so sorry.

It's fine.

Worst friend ever.

Have you told anyone yet?

No I'm going to wait for the end of the first trimester.

Okay hey, mum's the word.

Okay.

Alright I'm gonna get changed and

hand deliver these suckers.

Alright.

Thank you so much.

[Erica] Choices, look close enough

and you can see them everywhere.

But what do you do when you see your life

as a series of bad choices?

When you would give anything to have made different ones,

the question is,

if you could go back and do it all differently,

would you still be you?

[exclaiming]

Sorry!

My apologies!

Hi there.

Hi, can I help you?

[Erica] Yes, I'm just here to drop off a resume

for the assistant position.

The assistant position?

The Assistant to the Managing Editor of Fiction.

Right so just contact four or five blurbers

for the pre-publication endorsements,

see if they'd be willing to.

Oh, one sec.

Erica Strange!

Oh, Antigone Camp!

It's Antigone Morris now.

Wow!

-Yeah. -Congratulations.

-Thanks! -So, so do you work here?

Yeah I head up Green Row's Fiction Division.

[laughing]

Wow, so seeing you again is just,

I know it's crazy eh?

Yeah, it's really crazy.

Oh my god do you remember all those pompous debates

we used to have about god whatever?

Right we were really competitive back in the day you know.

Sometimes it's great to read a book,

just to read a book.

Yeah, not if you want to be an editor.

Yeah.

So how did you end up in publishing?

Well do you remember Literatti?

That not-so-secret society I was in?

Yes, they tapped me to join as well.

That's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

My boss is here, from Liberatti.

Really?

Yeah, Literatti members like to help each other.

And it doesn't hurt to have friends in high places,

if you know what I mean.

So?

Oh you're applying for a job

to be my assistant?

Yeah I'm kind of in the middle of a career change

right now so.

Unfortunately that position's been filled.

I just hired this bright young thing right out of Masters.

Let me guess Literatti.

Well we are the sum of our decisions, aren't we?

Yeah.

[laughing]

As long as you're happy, that's all that matters.

It was, it was really great seeing you again.

Bye!

[thoughtful music]

We are the sum of our decisions, aren't we?

I guess we are.

Dr Tom?

Hey Dr Tom!

-Whoa! -[tires squealing]

[car colliding]

[sirens wailing]

[cheerful music]

♪ It's clearer inside of me who I will always be ♪

♪ Off in the up of my heart

♪ Feels like I'm singing in the dark ♪

♪ To do it all over

♪ To do it again back the to the end ♪

♪ The sum of my dreams

♪ And everything I ever wanted to be ♪

Your car's not even worth $1000, it's 15 years old!

I know but the suspension

is scattered all over Bedford Road,

I mean I either give her up or I pay the money.

Oh my god Sam, that dress is gorgeous!

I like it.

All that running around and nobody

even called you for an interview?

[stammering]

I'm still trying to look, you can't expect me

to find something in one day!

Well if it doesn't work out

you can always come work for me!

[laughing]

Come work for you?

Well our Account Executive just retired

so if you can handle lunches at Holt's

and martinis with wedding planners.

Oh Erica loves martinis!

Mom?

We offer competitive wages and benefits.

[Barbara] Dental?

I don't even know anything about weddings people!

Well what's there to know!

Boy meets girl, boy woos girl.

Girl blows 10 grand on a lovely pile of lace and organza.

Oh save your breath Rudy my daughter

thinks she's too good to work for your successful business.

I do not!

Mom, leave her alone!

Thank you, Sam.

I'm just saying she might want to consider

saying yes to her uncle who's trying to help her.

I'm not saying no, would you just give me

a second to think about it?

Look Uncle Ruby, if I were to come and work for you

I mean it would just be a temporary thing

and I'd like to be upfront about that.

Be up front all you want,

all I'm saying is it's a good group of people

we have a lot laughs, you'd enjoy yourself.

When can Erica start?

Mom!

[thoughtful music]

[cell phone rings]

[Erica] Ethan!

Hey.

Oh I am so sorry!

It's just the craziest day!

And you're always late.

I know, I know.

What, are you moving in?

Eh yeah, I thought I'd sleep in your bathtub.

[laughing]

I did not have a poster of The Kiss up on my wall!

Yes you did, it was right above your desk.

No that was Judith!

No that was you, you bought it at that poster sale

in first year.

Why are you my friend again?

And do I need to remind you about the toaster oven incident?

No but you're going to.

Who installs a heat source underneath their bed?

Oh, oh, that's right, you do.

Like I'm gonna get out of bed to make nachos?

And that my friend, is the last of it.

I start a new job tomorrow.

No hangover for this girl.

A new job, doing what?

Account Executive!

At my Uncle Ruby's bridal company.

White Dreams.

Wet dreams?

White Dreams, you perv.

[laughing]

Wow, well congratulations, I guess.

No I mean it's, it's gonna be great.

It's, it pays the bills,

it's downtown,

there's dental.

You're, you're just not happy for me at all.

Sorry I can't go ra-ra-ra

over something you think is a mistake.

Ha okay Mr Honesty, what's with all the luggage?

Well,

I left Claire.

[somber music]

Oh my god Ethan, what happened?

She was cheating on me.

What!

Okay that's bullshit, she was cheating on you,

and you had to leave?

Well her dad owns half the city of Montreal,

he bought us our house in Outremont.

All our friends are her friends,

it feels like there's nothing left there for me.

So where're you gonna stay?

My parents have a granny suite.

No you're not gonna stay in your parents' basement.

You're gonna stay here with me.

Where, I was joking about the tub,

this place is too small.

Okay well, we'll find somewhere.

We'll look and we'll get you a place.

I promise you, I'm gonna get you sorted out.

I know.

[cheerful music]

Good morning.

Ow!

[card reader beeps]

It's magnetic!

Okay yeah, this way, through here.

Now your attachment zone is gonna be the Downtown core.

Okay.

That's home to some of the most discerning

bridal houses in the city, so you're gonna be

dealing with people who are,

well okay they can be prissy little pains in my ass.

Do I ever get to meet any real Bridezillas?

Oh no, oh no no no no no no no no,

no, no, no, no!

We don't have to get our hands dirty with any of that!

White Dreams is strictly import export.

Okay.

Now, here you are, right through here.

Go on, sit down!

-Make yourself at home! -Alright.

This is your domain.

It's best that you get to know each of our dresses by name,

-kay? -Okay.

Talk amongst yourselves.

Okay.

Alright.

The Ivory Tower.

The Snow Fairy.

The Virgin Queen?

Yeah right.

[playful music]

[gasps]

Good morning Erica.

How?

What are you doing in the girls' washroom?

Why, why isn't this the girls' washroom?

I was just at work and--

White Dreams.

Such an evocative name.

What, what!

Okay just before you go, this something from...

[door closes]

You've got that out of your system, have ya?

Yeah.

Good.

Please, come.

Sit down.

Sit down?

I, I've been looking for you everywhere,

I mean I have a million questions!

I can imagine.

You sent me back in time.

Indeed!

Very glamorous, I know.

How did you do it?

No, I mean more importantly, why?

Why did you pick me?

Samuel Johnson said the use of traveling

is to regulate imagination by reality,

and instead of thinking how things may be

to see them as they are.

Okay.

Okay.

Tell me about Regret Number Seven.

Tell me why you picked me.

Well why not you?

Is your life so insignificant?

No, but I--

Oh well good then, your list please.

Hold on, hold on, I have some questions to ask

and I think at the very least I'm entitled to ask them.

I mean you kinda made me destroy my car.

Erica, we made a contract.

And in order for that contract to work,

you have to trust me.

I do.

And you have to trust that my Number One Regret is Leo.

Please send me back to him.

I mean I mean I can warn him.

No you can't.

You can't go back to fix other people's mistakes.

And you can't go back to win the lottery,

or to bet on the Stanley Cup,

or to save your brother's life.

This Erica, is about you.

It's your list, it's your regrets, it's you.

So tell me about [taps notepad] Number Seven.

Secret Society?

Okay.

Okay.

[sighs] Secret Society, wow. [chuckles]

It was 1995, I was in my second year at university.

And I thought that I knew everything.

Normally I am not one for confrontation,

but when it came to books and literature,

I'd fight my arguments to the death.

And more often than not it was me versus Antigone Camp.

Literatti must've seen something in me,

and my passion, because that year, they tapped me to join.

Graveyard, midnight, bring a dress.

I mean that's all the invite said.

Literatti was the most respected club on campus.

They only invite a handful of people to join each year so,

I was flattered.

The cool kids wanted to hang out with me.

But the initiation process proved to be too much,

too gothic robes and masks.

And then they asked us to attack each other verbally.

And I always liked debating with Antigone in class but

for fun?

I mean that's just not me.

My gut told me to talk away, so I quit.

And you regret it.

Why?

Because in retrospect I mean

it was a short sided decision.

We are the sum of our decisions,

and as long as you're happy that's all that matters.

Antigone Morris.

[scoffs]

The thing is I'm not,

happy.

I mean I coulda just went along with it and I should've.

And if you had joined?

Membership has its privileges,

I mean just look what it did for Antigone.

I don't know if I could do it over I would join Literatti,

and I would do their silly little initiation,

and I would get on the right path.

The path that I shoulda been on all along.

[music drowned out by shouting]

Say no to tuition increases!

No! No! No!

Say no to tuition increases!

Education is a right!

We will fight, fight, fight!

Now!

Say no to tuition increases!

No! No! No!

Ethan!

Erica!

What are you doing out front there?

I have no idea!

Sorry!

Sorry!

I am so sorry!

Smash it!

[Officer] Move back!

Let go of me!

I'm going, I said it was an accident!

No more fees!

Come on, let's get out of here.

No more fees! No more fees!

No more fees! No more fees!

What do they think they scare me

with their laws and their rules?

You know you can arrest a body,

but the spirit, you'll never chain.

I'm late for Women's Studies.

Claire's incredible, isn't she?

Yeah that's one word to describe her.

Underneath all that angst and aggression and confidence

she's actually really insecure.

Her parents are rich, I mean megabucks.

She never tells anyone cus she thinks if people knew,

it would compromise her message.

Compromise her message?

I know, she overthinks things but in a cute way.

Don't ever told Claire I told you, she'd totally kill me.

I won't.

Hey guys wait up.

[laughing]

Oh my god!

Judith look at you!

Look at me, look at you!

You're covered in dirt!

Oh god you radicals really gross me out! [laughing]

[thoughtful music]

Okay, this is worse than that time right before Senior Prom

when you got that nasty spiral perm.

Oh and you had to straighten it with your flat iron?

You know I totally forgot about that.

Forgot, it was like two years ago?

She's been like this all day,

I think she got beaned by a rock.

[laughing]

Ow!

Oh sorry!

I thought it was grass.

Freaks.

Ah yeah don't do that.

Class.

Today we'll continue talking about James Joyce's

modernist masterpiece, Ulysses.

Erica, why don't you lead the discussion?

Me, Professor Bristow?

Breslow.

And yes, you.

Pick up where we left off.

On the use of yes, yes, yes at novel's end?

Okay just give me one second, it's been a while

since our last class.

Should I answer, Professor Breslow?

No that's fine, I got it, thanks.

It was about Joyce's determination to reinstate

the male dominated perspective in opposition to--

Perhaps what Erica is,

trying to say is that the use of phallocentric language

like scrotum-tightening sea,

was in the parleys of the time--

Thank you by the way for telling me

what I was trying to say.

Cat fight!

Can we get back to the material please,

and put aside our petty rivalries?

[Barrett] Erica Strange?

Yes.

You dropped this.

Thank you.

[Ethan] Who was that?

No one.

Hey listen guys I'm gonna catch up with you back at res.

-Alright. -Okay.

♪ Have you ever wandered

♪ Out there on your own

♪ Shadows in the distance

♪ Know you're all alone

[yells out]

[laughing]

This Literatti initiation is hugely competitive.

And just so you know, my mom had twins,

only one of us made it out alive.

♪ Something strange I'm betting ♪

[Barrett] Pass the skull and take a card.

Each card has a match.

That is your opponent.

Jokers, step forward.

Use the truth to attack each other,

don't censor yourselves, go.

I'm Erica Strange, daughter of an insurance salesman,

granddaughter of a bricklayer.

I'm sorry what's your family crest?

20% off coupon?

[laughing]

Oh you're so obscenely wealthy,

I'm surprised you even know about coupons.

And by the way shouldn't the silver spoon be in your mouth?

-Not up your ass? -[murmuring]

♪ Strange

♪ Strange

You know, the only reason why you're getting an A

in our English class is because

you must be screwing the professor.

The only reason why you're getting an A-

is because you must be screwing the professor.

[Barrett] That's enough, thank you both,

you will be moving on to our next round.

♪ Strange

[eerie music]

You want us to bury ourselves alive?

[Barrett] We want you to bury each other alive.

Refuse and forfeit membership in our club.

You, you, you, you, and you.

You five will be buried first, for 15 minutes.

Climb in the graves and lie in the caskets.

Close the lids.

Tonight, if we learn to face our fears,

they no longer have power over us!

[clasps twisting]

Grab a shovel.

Bury them.

Fill the entire hole.

[music turns suspenseful]

-No wait, hold on wait! -Hello?

[knocking]

[Barrett] It's okay, he's facing his fears.

[Initiate] Wait, I can't breathe!

[knocking]

Let me out please!

Please let me out right now!

[knocking]

[initiates drowning each other out]

[knocking]

I can't breathe!

Okay wait, wait, wait!

He's having a panic attack, he's freaking out!

[Barrett] Everything will be fine.

[Initiate] Just let me out please!

I can't breathe!

I can't breathe!

[Barrett] Erica and Antigone, pick up your shovels!

Pick them up!

[knocking]

Do what we say, trust us!

Have faith!

[knocking]

[Initiate] I can't breathe!

Hey! Are you okay!

[knocking]

[Antigone] What are we doing?

Screw this!

Oh god!

I want to suck your blood!

[laughing]

[laughing]

[Barrett] You, you, and you!

Go!

You have not passed our test!

What is this?

That's not funny.

Welcome to Literatti.

I wish I had a Polaroid,

the looks on your faces were priceless!

We don't want to bury these dudes alive!

[laughing]

[soft piano music playing]

[sighs]

Hey over there, isn't that?

Our former Prime Minister?

Yep.

You know the vast majority of people

in your situation tonight just follow orders?

But you two, you think for yourselves,

your minds are free from convention.

[speaking foreign language]

The truth will set you free!

In joining the Literatti is not simply a social affair,

our most important work is published in our zine,

The Punisher.

The slam paper?

It's not a slam paper, or a gossip rag.

Our next cover.

Ah yes.

Let me guess, you're thinking

Claire does so much good for us students.

The thing is, 10 students got arrest today because of her.

They all now have criminal records.

I don't trust her, I never have.

Erica, you're friends with Claire.

Not exactly.

Dig, get to the truth.

Pull your weight and earn your place.

Fail and your membership will be revoked.

[cheerful music]

♪ Bada da da

-Leo don't be long! -[knocking]

Andre's meeting us in 10!

Leo!

Mom hasn't heard from you in like 48 hours so,

she sent me here to make sure.

That I wasn't abducted by aliens!

Yeah.

Hey.

Hey why don't you come in?

I'll make you breakfast.

You'll make me cereal?

I got plans with the guys but.

Here, I made it for your next rave or protest or whatever.

Oh wow, I love it!

Thank you.

Hey what happened?

Oh yeah, Darryl and I snuck up onto the long cement thing

outside the front of City Hall.

It looked like a good place to board.

Leo you gotta take better care of yourself.

-Seriously. -Okay Mom!

You know why don't you lecture me about

eating my vegetables and not dropping out of university?

Wear that in peace.

Hey Leo?

Thanks.

For this, you don't know how much this means.

[thoughtful music]

[sniffs]

Excuse me, you don't happen to make lattes?

Dr Tom?

You're in a hair net.

Keeps the crew out of the crudites.

Ah no, no lattes but I do have carrot sticks.

So, what up?

What up?

Okay let's see since I've been back

I've buried someone alive.

Literatti, kind of dramatic.

Kind of?

And head honcho, Barett Ironside?

He's a total head case!

Head case who is now a powerful Hollywood producer,

thanks to his Literatti connections

and his flair for the dramatic.

He wants me to destroy Claire.

Ah those who plot the destruction of others

often perish in the attempt, Thomas Moore.

Okay and what about those who pulverize

their husbands' hearts into tiny little shards of glass?

Hard to say.

Claire, she is a liar, and a cheater.

And it is your job, your mission to mete out justice.

No I, well I wouldn't say that exactly.

But if Antigone, if she knew what I knew.

She'd have thrown Claire to the lions of course!

It's that killing spirit which has made Antigone

such a success in life.

Exactly!

Killing spirit, that doesn't sound like me!

And that's the reason why I walked away

from Literatti in the first place!

But Claire, she's, she is a spoiled little brat

that has pulled the wool over everyone's eyes,

including Ethan and she, I mean she deserves to go down!

You're sounding nothing like yourself already.

I don't want to cheat anything.

I gotta be a little bit less like me,

and a little bit more like them.

The egg.

Perfection, both in function and in form.

It has a double arch, top and bottom.

It's what makes an egg so incredibly strong.

But the minute that we begin to chip away

at its integrity, the egg collapses in

on itself until in the end we're left with only

[sizzling]

breakfast.

It's still an egg, but it's not the same.

[thoughtful music]

[laughing]

You're good at this.

[clears throat]

Oh, oh Erica!

I was so inspired by our last protest

that I've decided to get everyone to chain themselves

to the front doors of the Registar's office tomorrow!

Me and hundreds of students, like that's true solidarity!

Good morning to you too, Claire.

[scoffs]

Erica, always so hung up on propriety.

You know your conventional ways will hold you back.

Wow, you really, you don't have a filter do you?

What good is filtering the truth?

I just say it like it is.

I am myself, Claire, always.

Oh really and what was that down there with the guy

and the posters?

Oh my god Erica, you Anglos are so repressed.

Flirting is not cheating.

Or you think Ethan never looks around?

I think that Ethan loves you very much

and would put up with a lot from you.

I think you're very luck to have someone like him.

Yeah well Ethan knows me.

He knows the way I stand and I would never cheat on him.

Okay so let me get this straight,

you're a girl from the wrong side of the tracks

who's fighting against tuition hikes,

who always tells the truth and would never, ever cheat

and break my best friend's heart, that's you?

That's right.

Take it or leave it.

Look I'm telling you this professor

is notorious for breaking her students.

Okay cast members from her last production

said she practiced psychological warfare

because that's the way it works in the theater world.

Tough prof, so what?

This prof who claims to have been a profession actress

was really just a stage manager.

Total liar.

That has potential.

Good work.

Strange, you got some competition here.

So?

What do you got?

[thoughtful music]

Actually I, I don't have anything.

Big surprise.

Okay, what if I told you that Claire LeDuc,

the working class Joan of Arc,

is actually Claire St Armond,

the daughter of one of Montreal's richest businessmen?

Nice.

[exhales]

[dramatic rock music]

♪ It's all out in the open

♪ And there ain't nothing you can do ♪

♪ You're gonna go blind in the spotlight ♪

♪ Because they all know about you ♪

If the duchess's cry for poverty

were actually a cry for help.

Claire it seems is so privileged

she can even afford multiple personalities.

Damn, is this true?

Her being loaded?

I guess so, what else do they say?

I don't know, it's brutal.

I mean, whoever wrote this is you know kinda psychotic!

Well, would you look at that I am late for class,

on the other side of campus!

Judith, do not abandon me!

Gotta go!

-Hi, hey Claire. -Hey.

Did you see the paper?

Yeah I did.

I was trying to help the students you know?

I trying to do something good and,

I wanted it to be about what I said and what I did,

not about my parents and their money and their influence,

they have nothing to with this.

Hey!

Want to eat a piece of my cake?

[laughing]

Look just ignore him, clearly that guy is an idiot!

Everything I worked for is ruined.

♪ Whacha gonna do now

♪ Whacha gonna do now

Oh, hey.

I couldn't find you, I want to talk.

Let's do this inside.

Okay.

Ethan, I--

You know if you did what I think you did to Claire,

I can't believe it, you went after my girlfriend!

She lied to everyone!

You do not get to judge her!

How do you know that she's not lying to you?

I'm not talking about this.

You know you don't even know the whole story.

Her parents hate what she's doing, what she's becoming.

They practically disowned her!

I, I didn't know that.

The Punisher ask you to dig up dirt for their own reasons.

What were yours?

She did it out of insecurity

and worry people would judge her.

But you Erica?

I don't think I know you.

Ethan.

-Ethan! -[door closes]

[thoughtful piano music]

[balls clicking]

[balls clicking]

Ah, interference meaning I get to hit again.

Thank you Erica, always coming through. [chuckles]

I take it you saw our little newspaper.

I saw Claire.

Not a happy anarchist.

You guys, you really went to town.

Well we went as far as truth permitted.

Throw in a little flare and

every last issue was snapped up!

Look, I made a mistake.

I had no right to tell you about Claire.

All you did was tell the truth!

I am this close to giving your our next issue.

[scoffs]

I don't want it.

Erica.

Look getting to the truth is one thing,

but you guys, you, you relish the humiliation.

Degrading someone is fun for you, but that is not who I am.

So I quit.

You understand what you're giving up?

You quit and that's it.

Believe me, I understand.

But the price of admission is way too high.

[melancholy guitar music]

♪ Ain't nobody listenin'

♪ Ain't no one tries

The point is we want to block the entrance

so let's handcuff ourselves to each other

and to the door handle.

[chains rattling]

Hey, Claire.

Here to dig up more dirt on me?

I'm sorry.

Oh but don't apologize to me.

Apologize to the hundreds of students

that won't be able to afford tuition.

Okay, yeah no fine I will, I'll do it.

I'll do whatever it takes.

What I did was wrong, and I really regret it.

♪ The human snakes are feeding on my shadow ♪

Sit, sit, sit!

♪ The people are changing behind our back again ♪

[Students] Education is a right!

We will fight, fight, fight!

Education is a right!

We will fight, fight, fight!

Education is a right!

We will fight, fight, fight!

Ow!

Erica?

So I guess you made it through your first morning.

Before you know it you're going to be my rock, like Jean.

Who's Jean?

Oh, over there.

Jean you've been with me since what?

Since we were nothing but a little storage unit in Notobaka!

[laughing]

Welcome to the team!

Okie dokie well I have got to get to a conference call,

you've got some photocopying to do, thanks a lot.

And after that let's go out for a little celebratory lunch!

And by lunch I do mean liquid.

[thoughtful music]

[whooshing]

Can you like give me a warning sign or something?

Please, have a seat.

Okay but look.

For the record, I get it.

What?

I ended up right back where I started.

I mean Literatti, it's clearly not for me and,

I just need to learn to be happy with what I have.

As in the cubicle?

Are you happy at White Dreams?

No but that's different, it's--

Our lives are like a house of cards.

You know some of the cards are cosmetic,

while others are load-bearing walls.

You remove one of those cards,

and the whole thing comes tumbling down.

Like the egg.

Like the egg, chip away at what makes you, you,

and you become something else.

Your gut told you to avoid Literatti the first time around

and you were right to listen to that.

There are many ways to achieve our goals Erica,

but ignoring your inner voice, is not one of them.

So, tell me.

Is this job the right job for you?

No!

[sighs]

[gasps]

Oh!

Oh sorry, sorry!

No, no that wasn't my shih tzu, that was me.

Look I, I'll have to call you back.

[hangs up phone]

Erica, are you trying to kill me?

This face, not as young as it looks!

Uncle Ruby, I quit.

And I appreciate so much this opportunity,

but it just, it isn't right.

You haven't even given it a day.

That's just the thing, I don't need to.

I know that it's wrong, for me.

The wedding biz, it's what you always wanted to do, right?

I used dress your mom up in your

Bubby's laced curtains when I was six.

Exactly, you knew!

And I feel that, you know what I know that,

there's something out there that I'm supposed to do

and I want to take the time right now to find it.

You know maybe it's books!

You could read on your lunch breaks!

Well.

Oh okay, okay, okay fine.

Come here, come here.

Now go, go go go go go go go!

Do what you have to do!

Your mom may not understand but I do.

And I'll talk to her.

Though I can't promise she won't disembowel me.

Thank you Uncle Ruby, for everything.

Okay.

[phone rings]

♪ Bada da da

♪ Bada da da

[cheerful music]

Here it is!

Oh!

Well you're right I mean it is a little small.

But the layout is, is pretty good.

And there's tons of storage.

Yeah and the rent's cheapish,

of course compared to Montreal.

Well you can't compare anything to Montreal,

rent, bagels.

It's right next door, that's not gonna be weird?

No, I don't think so!

It doesn't feel like, we're regressing,

like we're living back in Residence?

Yeah, just minus the co-ed showers.

No I think it will be fine besides,

Res is where we became best buds.

Totally.

And where you almost fired me as a friend.

What are you talking about?

You remember in second year,

when I almost joined Literatti?

Ah and sold out Claire?

You remember.

Yeah, I remember that.

Do you ever wish, I mean especially now,

given everything that's going on with you and Claire.

What?

Do you ever wish that you woulda listened to me?

And you know saved yourself a lot of heartache?

No.

Really?

I mean she's destroyed my life.

But she was my life for a long time you know?

So, I don't see any reason why I shouldn't take this place.

Great!

Oh we're gonna have so much fun!

Jenny and Judith, they're gonna be really jealous!

[cell phone rings]

Oh, that's me.

River Rock Pub?

Oh, River Rock Publishing!

Answer it!

Okay!

Hello?

This is she.

Next week, sure of course I can make it.

3 o'clock?

No, that's.

No, I know where the offices are.

Great, okay thank you.

[squealing]

That's great! Congratulations!

I got an interview!

You got an apartment!

[Protestors] Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

Global justice now!

[Erica] Everyone's got their own path.

Some are only just beginning.

[thoughtful music]

[sighs]

While others end all too soon.

However you do it, the fact is,

the path you're on, the choices you make,

define who you are.

Choices, they're the building blocks of our lives.

They shape our past, present, and future.

And despite all the mistakes I've made,

every new day brings with it new choices,

and a whole new world of possibilities.

Wow!

♪ Bada da da

♪ Bada da da

[easy guitar music]

[vocalizing]

♪ Bada da da

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