In The Real World
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Eighty-year-old widower Connie Carter, escapes to the family cottage to finally face her grief of the loss of her beloved husband Hugh who was her savior from a life a loneliness. In her attempt to say good-bye she is pulled back into her collage days before she started working at Advance. Connie was invited to the annual company gala to accept a life time achievement award in the world of artificial intelligent where both herself and Hugh had been pioneers. This set off a stroll down memory lane of her past where she was broken by her old flings from university and wishing to escape to the virtual world. Now 60 years later she realizes it was all just to set in motion to meeting the man of her dreams.
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