Lenny has constructed a ranch house inside a New York apartment. "Elly" has had too much to drink and Lenny and Doreen are absorbed in each other. Doreen has slipped right into calling her by her made-up name instead of her real name, Esther. She doesn't blow Esther's cover. Esther watches Doreen and Lenny dance and as the relationship heats up, she decides she doesn't want to see any more and leaves. She is tipsy, but she takes out her New York City map and figures out how to get back to their hotel. She walks the 48 blocks alone and by the time she gets to her room, she is sober.
She feels very alone. "The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence." She thinks about.....
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