Thoughts Before Sleep

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  • Thoughts
  • Before
  • Sleep,
  • a
  • dark
  • romantic
  • comedy,
  • tells
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • the
  • end
  • of
  • Judith
  • and
  • Clark’s
  • thirty-year
  • marriage
  • and
  • the
  • beginning
  • of
  • new
  • lives
  • for
  • the
  • unhappy
  • couple.Fifty-eight-year-old
  • Judith
  • is
  • trying
  • to
  • decide
  • whether
  • her
  • loneliness,
  • sadness,
  • and
  • anger
  • are
  • enough
  • to
  • overcome
  • her
  • fears
  • about
  • getting
  • a
  • divorce.
  • Judith,
  • who
  • refers
  • to
  • herself
  • as
  • Sleeping
  • Former
  • Beauty,
  • who
  • has
  • spent
  • years
  • wandering
  • their
  • twelve-room
  • house
  • listening
  • to
  • self-help
  • books,
  • begins
  • going
  • on-line
  • to
  • scroll
  • through
  • Tinder’s
  • looking
  • for
  • a
  • man
  • who
  • could
  • make
  • her
  • feel
  • loved
  • again.
  • She
  • begins
  • meeting
  • men
  • for
  • lunch.
  • Even
  • as
  • she
  • evaluates
  • her
  • possibilities
  • among
  • the
  • widowers,
  • divorced,
  • and
  • liars,
  • she
  • fights
  • her
  • feelings
  • of
  • how
  • these
  • damaged,
  • lonely
  • men
  • are
  • looking
  • at
  • her,
  • overweight
  • and
  • aged
  • as
  • she
  • is. Judith’s
  • husband
  • Clark,
  • who
  • depends
  • upon
  • a
  • well-developed
  • sense
  • of
  • duty
  • both
  • to
  • get
  • him
  • through
  • his
  • tension-filled
  • workweek
  • days
  • in
  • Virginia,
  • spends
  • his
  • weekends
  • back
  • in
  • Rhode
  • Island
  • riding
  • his
  • lawnmower
  • and
  • talking
  • to
  • their
  • dog
  • Deebs
  • rather
  • than
  • trying
  • to
  • communicate
  • with
  • the
  • half-ghost
  • of
  • the
  • woman
  • who
  • once
  • infatuated
  • him.Over
  • the
  • course
  • of
  • a
  • year
  • Judith
  • and
  • Clark
  • divorce,
  • endure
  • emotional
  • confusion,
  • make
  • false
  • starts
  • and
  • stupid
  • decisions,
  • wound
  • and
  • are
  • wounded,
  • lose
  • friends
  • and
  • make
  • enemies,
  • and
  • come
  • to
  • favor
  • black
  • humor
  • and
  • gin
  • as
  • necessary
  • tools
  • as
  • they
  • struggle
  • to
  • cobble
  • together
  • new
  • lives
  • without
  • each other.
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