Laura: Separation Anxiety is about a couple who can't really afford to get divorced, and so they have to live together and stay in the same house. They live in separate parts of the house. The cover for their newly teenage son is that one of them snores. Of course, it's Judy who snores, but she claims that it's Gary who snores. He sleeps in the basement in a spare bedroom. It's also about Judy who has gotten to a point in her life at fifty, where a lot of us get at that age, where loss seems to be the prevalent thing. She's lost both of her parents. Her career has gone downhill. She can't seem to get things going. Obviously, her marriage is challenging. Her son is now a teenager who becomes the typical quiet, secretive, kid that she can no longer snuggle. In that emotional space, she one day looks at the dog and decides to start to wear the dog in an old baby sling that she never even wore her son in. She was cleaning out the basement to try to declutter and suddenly finds a sling and thinks, oh boy, I'm going to put the dog in there. That's her form of self-comfort.