Imaginary Latvian Baby Born (or Maybe Not…) During a Film Shoot in Riga
in the Bravo series “Girlfriends’ Guide to Divorce” (2016)
Abby: Jake, having you gone was so much harder than I thought it was gonna be. Us married, I get that… That’s over, but… Me and you…
Jake: Yeah. I have a confession to make.
Abby: Oh, my God, don’t tell me there’s a Latvian baby.
Jake: Yes, there is. No, no Latvian baby, but I did not get stuck in the Helsinki airport. I got stuck on the floor of my hotel room. That movie wrapped, and this wave hit me. It was grief. It was grief over the death of Jake and Abby 2.0.
Abby: I was just hoping to skip that part, you know, get to the heal part.
Jake: Yeah, me too. I don’t think it works like that.
Abby: Obviously. I mean, this is the… The face of skipping it. I screwed everything up bad. The book’s a mess because I’m trying to write about moving on, and I haven’t.
Jake: Okay, so feel that. I mean, I was eating Latvian carpet. I didn’t figure everything out, but I looked into that big, black hole of loneliness…and it’s scary as shit. But I realized it’s not gonna kill me.
Abby: Well… it might kill me.
Jake: No way. I promise. But you need to give me the kids for a week or two, and you need to go take the time to not be fine. And, yeah, part of us is over. And I will always be here for you.
Abby; I’ll always be here for you too… always. Oh, sorry. Oh, Jesus. Sorry, little baby.
