What About Me?

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WhenJessie Boland's lawyer husband Douglas has an affair, she moves to their New York apartment, gets herself a job at the Metropolitan Museum, and a psychiatrist on Fifth Avenue. Douglas' affair, however, is only an excuse for Jessie to run from a much greatertragedy that has penetrated her safe little world on Philadelphia's Mainline. As Dr. Lieberman forces her to open closed doors from her past, her first lovere-enters her life, her son leaves the family firm and moves to California, herhusband decides he wants her back, and her married daughter wants things theway they had been. Jessie, who has spentall of her life being what she thought she was supposed to be, is finallychallenged to awaken to who she really is and what she truly can be. Will she play it safe and run back to Douglas or step into the unknown by making her own needs and wishes a priorityfor the first time in her life?