Courtney Cox

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On a rainy morning in 1973, the Cox family cow encountered difficulties while giving birth to a calf. Understanding that something needed to be done for the cow, a young Courtney Cox set to baking the only thing she knew, Mississippi mud pies, in the corner of the pig pen behind the barn. By mid-day, it was determined that the calf was stillborn and the laborious struggles of the old cow had been too much for her: She’d have to be put down. Courtney’s parents thought their daughter would be oblivious to all this, save for the sound of the shotgun blast from where she was playing in the pig pen, but there must have been a crack in the wooden siding of the old barn because she relayed the story of her father’s gore-splattered hip-waders down to the finest detail while laying on the couch in her psychologist’s office in between tapings of the fourth and fifth season of the hit TV sitcom ‘Friends’ that she starred in during the late ninety’s. Her psychologist, who was being paid on NBC’s dime, sat cross-legged in a high-back leather chair beside her, only took Courtney on as a patient at the request of Courtney’s partner and later-to-be husband, David Arquette, because Courtney had been acting withdrawn as of late.

“Sometimes he wishes I’d cook with him,” said Courtney through a sigh as she stared at the ceiling, “But I just can’t bring myself to it.”