Next day while Don was in the ASAP... I mean ASSP meeting, I decided to Skype Sylvia to ask the same question.
I always saw Don turning on the computer and signing in Skype, so it wasn't hard for me to do that myself. Just a couple of clicks.
It was always nice to see Sylvia's gentle smile. "I need to ask you a question that has been bothering me, Sylvia." After the small chat with Sylvia, I asked her what I needed to know. "Sure, go ahead. What is it?" Drinking coffee, Sylvia playfully straightened her posture to get herself ready to answer my question. "Hypothetically, if you and Don get marry, where would you guys live? New York or Los Angeles?" My question made her spill the coffee on her lap and shriek. "Are you willingly moving back to Los Angeles?" Desperate to hear her say something positive about LA, I leaned forward to the screen. "Los Angeles?! " She looked at me, raising her eye brows, and said, "That city is full of crazy people! People living there are unbearably immoral. I can't go back to the place that gives me so much negativity."  "But, Sylvia, you were born here and you have all of us here." Despite the fact that I already knew what she was going to say, I tried to convince Sylvia to get what Don wanted her to do. "I know. But in the past, things in LA never worked out with me. Every morning I wake up, I want to feel good. I want to feel that I love where I am. New York gives me that feeling. If you take New York away from me, I would be a woman without soul." I looked down at the keyboard, feeling sad, and then asked her just to make sure. "Does Don know about it?" She was quiet for a moment and said,"If it's meant to be, things will come around." "Come around to which way?" Silence. "Sylvia, you know you can't take Hollywood away from Don." Another silence. "Are you assuming that Don would change?" It was unfortunate that she responded to all my questions with silence.
After talking with both Don and Sylvia, I got the impression that they both were assuming and hoping that the other would do what they want him or her to do for them, but they were afraid of facing the reality that their assumption might be wrong. If they want me to say out loud, I would say that their assumptions were definitely wrong. That evening, instead of listening to their regular routine "I love you" and "I miss you", I had to listen to a  whole straight 2 hour argument between Don and Sylvia talking by Skype. Hiding myself under the blanket and holding my ears with my paws, I wondered. Shouldn't I have raised the question to them or did I do the right thing? I couldn't answer my own question. But at least they took the first step to face it and talked ...I mean, argued about it. So I took it that their relationship also moved forward in a way and that was all that mattered. I think... To be continued... | 
"Sylvia makes you happy."
