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PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Past Tense" - An office election pits Sam and Naomi against each other to lead the practice, and ends with surprising results, while Addison treats a young Afghan girl who wants to hide her past, and Cooper's objectionable personal life catches up with his professional one, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ERIC McCANDLESS)TY SIMPKINS, PAUL ADELSTEIN
Past Tense
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Aired 10/29/08
Cooper meets Braden, a young boy who stopped speaking at age four, and has been unresponsive to autism therapies. The boy’s mother notes how familiar Cooper looks. She returns the next morning, furious. She had seen Cooper—on an adult dating site—in his birthday suit! And just like that, she yanks Braden from his care. And how would she know Cooper was on an adult dating site, we wonder. Hmm?

Addison meets with a teenage Arab girl, Sharbat, whose mother explains the girl was attacked and needs hymenoplasty to be re-virginized. The mother explains that Sharbat has been promised to an Afghani man who could take care of their family, but only if Sharbat is still a virgin. The doctors have their typical ethics and issues debate—over the “purification” procedure.

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  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Past Tense" - An office election pits Sam and Naomi against each other to lead the practice, and ends with surprising results, while Addison treats a young Afghan girl who wants to hide her past, and Cooper's objectionable personal life catches up with his professional one, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ERIC McCANDLESS) KATE WALSH
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Past Tense" - An office election pits Sam and Naomi against each other to lead the practice, and ends with surprising results, while Addison treats a young Afghan girl who wants to hide her past, and Cooper's objectionable personal life catches up with his professional one, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ERIC McCANDLESS) PAUL ADELSTEIN, KaDEE STRICKLAND
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Past Tense" - An office election pits Sam and Naomi against each other to lead the practice, and ends with surprising results, while Addison treats a young Afghan girl who wants to hide her past, and Cooper's objectionable personal life catches up with his professional one, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ERIC McCANDLESS) KATE WALSH
  • PRIVATE PRACTICE - "Past Tense" - An office election pits Sam and Naomi against each other to lead the practice, and ends with surprising results, while Addison treats a young Afghan girl who wants to hide her past, and Cooper's objectionable personal life catches up with his professional one, on "Private Practice," WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29 (9:00-10:01 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network. (ABC/ERIC McCANDLESS) KATE WALSH, CHRIS LOWELL, PAUL ADELSTEIN