Cassandra

Cassandra Silverdust had been your imaginary girlfriend since you were in junior high, some 35 years ago. Loving, nurturing and supportive, Cassandra used to be your older, wiser, insightful, make-believe companion who would educate you in the ways of romance and relationships, navigating the adventures of growing up. She had remained by your side, celebrating your victories, and crying with you through your defeats. Being a late bloomer yourself, you established your first relationship with a ‘real’ girlfriend at age 21. Though attempting to be unobtrusive, she continues to remain a constant in your life, throughout a long series of girlfriends, lurking in the shadows, revealing herself when you've needed her, before vanishing on the eve of the marriage to your first wife. Now on the eve of your 50th birthday, married to your second wife with 2 young girls, Cassandra has emerged on her own to greet you, a bitter, stoic older man, who has seemed to have lost his way in life, challenged and beset by the responsibilities of adult life.