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MIKE I don’t know what that means. JOEL Be open to new things. MIKE Paige used to get on me about that. JOEL Forget Paige. You need a passion. Something that makes you happy. I gotta go. Can you finish up here?
Mike nods. Joel leaves. Mike looks at their work. They have just papered a fence with hundreds of BIG LEAP flyers. Mike steps closer, reading, his eyes widening... PRE-LAP: GABBY (O.S.) I can’t shake the feeling that I’m living the wrong life. INT. MED MEN STORE - NIGHT CLOSE ON: Gabby, talking to someone. It feels like therapy. GABBY
I mean everybody has dreams when they’re a kid that don’t work out, right? Why can’t I get over it? I’m stuck. I’ve dealt with depression and anxiety all my life but lately it’s just so loud, you know? I have looping, anxious thoughts all the time about my future and also about the world. I mean, is this it? You just go to work at a job you hate, meanwhile the world burns and polar bears die of starvation? I thought life was gonna be different. More sparkle and passion and less dead polar bears. So I think I should try maybe medicating? So I’m more content? But it’s really important that it not make me eat an entire birthday cake because I gain weight really easily.
REVEAL we’re in a MED MEN marijuana dispensary and she’s talking to a SALES ASSOCIATE. He looks at her with a mournful expression, sighs, grabs a weed pen off the shelf.
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