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"What about Mica?" she asks, sounding totally uninterested

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"I don’t think that was apause I ask, "What was it?"

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The calycerin tears onto ain and just like in rehearsals I hang the phone up in such a way that it drops out of ently, I lift it up, staring at it We don’t bother reshooting and it’s on to the next setup

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Chloe actually lets the doorivescene, which is basically that when Chloe skipped the shows she was supposed to do today it caused some kind of horrible ruckus and since "Hard Copy," "Inside Edition," "A Current Affair," "Entertain Chloe is heading to Canyon Ranch for teeks with Baxter Priestly and in the elevator the director, getting fed up with uely unhappy and when I glance uncertainly at the camera it rises up as the elevator doors open and follows me into the darkness of the hallway that leads to Chloe’s loft

Inside the apart; the s are covered with huge sheets of ice, and frost layers the kitchen cabinets and the giant glass coffee table, the floor slippery in places The phone keeps ringing, co with the TV in Chloe’s bedroom, and as I walk in to turn it down a promo for this afternoon’s "Patty Winters Show" appears, the host cradling a severely defors "From a Distance" on the sound track, and then it’s back to a soap opera, where a character says to another character, "That wasn’t nice," and I move slowly over to the bathroom but Chloe isn’t in there The tub is full of suds and there are two empty containers of Ben Jerry’s Chubby Hubby ice crea by the sink, next to the retainer Chloe uses to bleach her teeth, which sits beside a large hand e of panic I’m about to inspect, but then Chloe walks into the bedroo

She’s on a cellular, listening to solances over at me as she walks toward the bed, on top of which sits the set of Gucci luggage To into the phone I can’t hear, then clicks off, and I reconsider opening"Ta-da!" but instead ask "Who was that?" and then, when there isn’t an answer, "That’s not your phone"