Editing The Object of My Affection (section)

==Plot==
Social worker Nina Borowski is a young woman living in a [[Brooklyn]] apartment. Nina attends a party given by her [[stepsister]] Constance and her husband, Sidney. There, Nina meets George Hanson, a young first-grade teacher, who is gay, and his boyfriend Dr. Robert Joley. Nina tells George that her stepsister is constantly trying to fix her up with somebody from higher society, since she disapproves of Nina's boyfriend Vince. Then Nina offers George a room in her apartment as she has just been told by Robert that George is looking for somewhere to live. Since this is news to George, he is taken aback and heartbroken, and after the party, the two split up. George accepts Nina's offer and moves into her apartment.

The two soon become good friends, watching films together and going [[ballroom dancing]]. When Nina announces that she is pregnant. Vince, the baby's father, wants to marry her, but she declines and they break up. George offers to help raise the child. For some time, they live happily together in her apartment, until Nina finds that her love for George is growing every day, especially after he tells her he had a girlfriend in high school, leading her to believe they might develop a romantic relationship.

One afternoon, George and Nina kiss and start to become intimate when George gets a phone call from Robert, telling George he has missed him and inviting him away for the weekend. George is confused but agrees to go. Nina feels rejected and jealous. Over the weekend, George and Robert do not re-establish their relationship, but George meets Paul James, a young actor, and the two are attracted to each other. Meanwhile, Nina stays with Constance at a vacation mansion and is extremely moody. Not enjoying herself, she decides to head back home on a late bus, and phones to ask George to go along with her, but he wants to stay with Paul. Back in Brooklyn, her purse is snatched and a friendly police officer, Louis, gives her a ride home.

Nina invites Paul and his older acting mentor with whom he lives, Rodney, for [[Thanksgiving]], after a rather prickly brunch with a late arriving George, his brother Frank, and his brother's latest fiancée. After the evening winds down, Paul stays the night with George, resulting in a heated argument between George and Nina, and heartache for Rodney.

At Frank's wedding, Nina and George continue their discussion as Nina begins to realize the reality of their situation. Nina fully explains to George her feelings for him. George, who loves Nina as his best friend, tells her that, ultimately, he wants to be with Paul. A few hours later, Nina gives birth to a baby girl she names Molly. Vince, ecstatic, visits her in the hospital, but when he leaves to complete paperwork, Nina and George remain alone with Molly. Nina asks George to move out of her apartment before she gets home from the hospital, stating that it would hurt her too much to have him stay while knowing that he doesn't love her the same way she does him.

Eight years later at George's school, everyone goes to see Molly in a musical production that George has directed. George is now the principal of the school, Nina is in a relationship with Louis, and George is still with Paul. Rodney is also there, still considered 'one of the family' by Louis and Nina. Nina, George, and young Molly (who refers to George as her "Uncle George") walk together, hand-in-hand, on their way to get coffee and talk.