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5,000 to leave New York and never contact him again. Adam is heartbroken, but Don explains that he has too much to lose by revealing his past. Adam embraces him, then Don leaves, having severed all ties to his earlier life. He tells Betty that they will have to wait until they are financially able to afford a summer home.
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to visit her ex-boyfriend Charlie Fiddich, her first lover, who now works in publishing, to get him to publish a story that Pete has written. Their meeting goes awkwardly, with him trying to start an affair with Trudy, but Trudy resists his advances, and thus he only agrees to publish the story in
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Don receives a letter from Adam containing a room number ("5G") at a single room occupancy hotel, and a photo of the two of them when Adam was a child and Don a soldier. Don burns the photograph, then calls Adam and sets up a meeting time. At the hotel, Don coldly dismisses Adam, but gives him $
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The advertising campaign Don is working on this week is for Liberty Capital Savings. He and the team come up with the idea of men opening up secret discretionary accounts that the women in their life won't know about—the Executive Account. Don is then surprised by a call from his mistress,
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is resentful, and contemplates writing a fictional story about meeting and getting along with some "negroes". Pete decides to use his connections to get a story published. He pressures his wife
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in 2013, praised the emotional core of the story, but called the episode "over-obvious and the subtext that really makes this show sing when it's working".
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channel in the United States on August 16, 2007. It is the first episode to deal with the series' long-running story arc of Don's dual identities.
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it took to get him published there. In response, Trudy is crushed and asks him "why would you do that to me?"
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Midge, and Peggy accidentally overhears them making plans for a nooner (sex during lunchtime).
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mother. Don leaves without eating after telling Adam that he has no place for him in his life.
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is scornful of Ken, as he is from nowhere and without family of any note. Bohemian
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announces that he has recently gotten a short story published in
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wins the "Newkie Award" for his work, and his picture appears in
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and the kids arrive for a family portrait, and a desperate
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Index

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Lesli Linka Glatter
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Jack Konig
Anne Dudek
Francine Hanson
Charlie Fiddich
Alison Brie
Trudy Campbell
Jay Paulson
Adam Whitman
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