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Frustrated that her boyfriend cannot open up, and keeps sneaking off in the middle of the night, Marai has confronted him. She caught him getting dressed in the dark and realizes she needs to give him an ultimatum. She only knows about half of his emotional baggage, but she needs him to let it go if they have a chance of moving forwards.
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MARAI I thought of you in class yesterday.
JACKSON Yeah?
MARAI I told you I have been working with Professor Keeton right?
JACKSON The pigeons?
MARAI Yes. The pigeons. Did I tell you what he was working on?
JACKSON No.
MARAI He was attaching magnetic bars to the backs of these pigeons to prove that it interfered with their own ability to use the earths magnetic field as a way to guide them home. Basically he is trying to prove that they have their own internal compass.
JACKSON That sounds cruel.
MARAI It is kind of, but that's not the point.
JACKSON Well what is?
MARAI It just made me think that if you would just stop carrying around all this crap on your back you would know which way to go.
JACKSON Well, the trouble is Marai, that's not the kind of internal compass I come equipped with. Mine is the other kind. The kind that's good at drawing circles. And measuring distances on a map.
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