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Chicago Love Tapestry is a one act romantic comedy with strong thematic elements about the "tangled web" love new relationships seem to develop inevitably in the wake of relationships gone awry but can never quite relinquish the baggage. Two people reeling from recent divorces collide one rainy Saturday afternoon in Central a travel agency owner from Chicago named Autumn, and a director/playwright from Alabama named Michael Green. Michael rushes to Autumn´s aid when she is mugged. She warms to his Southern charm, and they sardonically discuss their inescapable ties to their exes. While he escorts her back to her hotel, the Plaza, they continue to commiserate. Autumn claims she has been commissioned by her former inlaws to bail her ex hubby out of NYC jail for a DUI, in which he hit a taxi, injuring a mobster´s son. Michael claims he is in town for his brother´s drag show ("came out of the closet in a Baptist household"). Autumn senses, however, that he is inextricably bound to his ex, an actress named Gisele, who constantly hounds him for money, and wonders if Michael still loves Gisele. She also wonders whether she is too old for Michael. Arriving at her suite, he mixes drinks while she, a muddy mess from the attempted rape, soaks in a bubble bath. She watches through a cracked door him caressing a tapestry draped across the couch. He turns on Chicago´s Greatest Hits and dances, with drinks aloft, to the bathroom door. She invites him in ("Don´t be such a gentleman; I´m under the bubbles") and answers his questions about the tapestry, which her Illinois farmer´s wife grandmother had made during her childhood. She explains that the "baby quilt" was made to comfort her during Autumn´s father´s absence in Vietnam. The bitter child had considered it a good luck charm providing sweet dreams of her father´s safe return. He did return safely, and Autumn wishes that other families during our "current (Iraqi) conflict" were so lucky. He offers to wash her hair, and she cons