Since I write plays and I therefore often think in dialogue, I thought that I'd complete this task as dialogue, too. I didn't format it like a play, but it shouldn't be too hard to follow.

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Anyway, I just came over to let you know before…

Before you just disappear?

C'mon, Kate.

Don't act like it's not the kind of thing you would do.

Every time I make a decision that makes me happy, you attack me.

For crying out loud, Zach, I'm not attacking you!

Gee, that's what it sounds like.

Have you considered that maybe I'm looking out for you?

It's not like I'm leaving the country.

Joshua Tree is about as far from New York as you can get without leaving the country.

Kate, I know what I'm doing and I want to do this.

Like you knew you wanted to buy that boat that's sitting on the bottom of the harbor.

My boat is a verboten topic of conversation.

Not when you're about to do something stupid yet again.

Ouch.

Please just promise me you'll think this through a little more.

Quit being my mother and be my friend, and then I'll promise.

Realizing I'm going to regret this, show me the picture of your property again.

See that whole area that's kind of left of center?

That's all going to be yours?

Up to that second peak on the left and down to the ravine in the bottom corner.

Very pretty.

What's it called when you garden with cacti and desert plants like that?

Xeriscaping.

Yeah?

Zach, would I lie to you?