Claire

“I must tell you a love story. This will be a love story, my love story for you. It’s about Brian, and how it ended for me with Brian. You remember he and Lola were married then? He was seeing me and it became, well, it became too involved, too intense, he was so demanding, so needy, he needed me to fix things so much it wasn’t for me, so I ended it. I ended it, and then right after, I ran into Lola in Smiley’s, and she was very drunk. She was very drunk and she came up to me saying, ‘I know what you’ve been doing, I know, and I’m going to beat you up.’ I said. ‘What is this? Yes, it’s true, but you’re too late, it’s already over, it’s finished, I’ve ended it with him.’ Now she was very, very drunk, so it ended up that I had to drive her home and put her to bed. Since I had to do that and it was raining I couldn’t walk home. It was her car, you see, I didn’t own a car then, so I had to stay over, and we slept together in her bed, and I made love with her. It was very funny. I’m wearing Brian’s clothes, his robe, and I play Brian’s role with her, and in the morning she says, ‘My God, what did we do?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know. What do you mean?’ And she says, ‘Brian. What are we going to do about Brian?’ And I said, ‘I don’t know. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to tell him? Is that it?’ So when Brian came in she told him, you see, and that is my love story for you this evening.”