Trudy Campbell is married to Pete Campbell, a Partner at the Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce advertising agency. The two live in a Park Avenue apartment on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Trudy's father, a salesman for Vicks Chemical, helped her husband get the Clearasil account for Sterling Cooper. Trudy herself tried to help Pete with his literary aspirations by speaking with an ex-boyfriend in the publishing industry. Her actions on Pete's behalf secured his short story a place in Boys' Life.

Trudy's inability to conceive and Pete's ambivalence about parenthood cause her anxiety. After he rejects adoption as a possibility, Trudy resigns herself to being childless. One day when Pete tenses up after seeing the neighbors' au pair with their children, Trudy senses that he feels guilty about their own lack of offspring. "I don't care," she assures him.

In fact, Pete is feeling guilt about chasing the au pair while Trudy was away. "I don't want you to go away anymore without me," Pete later tells Trudy, who senses that something happened during her absence. "Good," she replies. "I won't."

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