The progressive nervous system disease ALS has already started slowing her down, and she wants out, before her quality of life deteriorates to the point where she can’t move – or swallow. “You know it s time when you need to start drinking Chablis from a paper cup,” Lily jokes, as her first glass of the weekend smashes on the floor. That helps breaks the ice, as does the additional presence of Jennifer’s rather hapless husband Michael (Rainn Wilson), Lily’s old “partner-in-crime” Liz (Lindsay Duncan) and Anna’s on-off girlfriend Chris (Bex Taylor-Klaus) – “someone to get drunk with,” Lily giggles to the latter.
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