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“Happy Husband Jim” was the role Richard played on a daily soap opera. With false lines that felt dead when they erupted from his mouth, he went home to his Not-So-Happy Wife Jane watching the episode Richard had filmed earlier in her bathrobe on the couch. While he walked through the door, his reflection on the television walked through the gate and they both said in unison “I have seven months to live.” Jane, thinking he was repeating the words for mocking purposes paid no attention to real Jim fantasizing of the things one could do with glossed up Made-For-TV Jim. He won’t tell her, he decides, “I’ll be right in front of her even when I’m gone.”