Yes! The “scratch ticket widows” always made me sad. All of these old ladies who came in every Friday night and blew their entire Social Security checks on scratch tickets.

This has really turned into a “we’re old now” Generation X lamenting session. I love you guys.

I see what you did there!

Agreed - we had access to it at my college in Boston in 1993. Come to think of it, in high school, maybe 1992 - 1993, kids used “Prodigy” - was that an early browser? (I’m clearly not a tech person).

Holy shit, which Store 24? I worked at one in Boston around the same time. I was at the one on Mass. Ave., in the Berklee campus area.

That’s funny - I worked in marketing for years, so I knew that “35-44" is the first “middle-age” bracket. Maybe that’s why turning 35 was seriously hard for me, but 40 wasn’t a big deal at all.

I want to go to that one too. It better have a good bar scene, because I’m sure I’ll be widowed by the time I get to a place like that - it will be like living in the dorms all over again. (I know that sounds mean to my husband, who I love dearly, but in my family, pretty much every husband dies 20 years before the…

My husband and I still listen to that album all the time.

I told her that actually, life itself is NOT short. Those last 30 or so years of inevitable decline suck ass and last forever. What IS short is the amount of time you get to be young and enjoy things without fear or any obligation. It is heartbreakingly short...maybe 10 years if you are really smart and lucky. So, I…

Me three - started college in ‘93, and I’m 40 now. Even more than making me feel old, though, it’s shocking to be reminded of how young he was when he died. 27 was “older” to me at the time, but from where I am now, that’s such a tragically young age to have died. Fuck.

Awkwardturtle, I think I love your mom too. I’m growing a gnome collection in my yard too.

I liked it. I’ve read all of Liane Moriarty’s books and I’ve loved most of them - this was one of the best ones. The writer lives in Australia, though, and all of her books are set there. I was confused for a minute when I realized they had re-set the show in Monterey, CA.

I love this scene so much.

I always confuse them, even though I know that they’re different people.

I saw them on the news the other night, zero sympathy.

Since we’re talking about art, I just want to say that I drive right past this silly outdoor sculpture at its new home at the Hirshhorn on Independence Ave. every day during my shitty commute, and it makes me very happy. It’s got a smiley face on it.

Can I give this more stars?

Yes! I got my husband the print of “Beech Grove I” for a gift one year and he loved it.

I went to the Klimt Museum in Austria and I got this awesome little print of a painting of chickens in a field that he did - not typically Klimt, but I really like it ... he has more range than what you see in the more popular paintings.

I dunno ... I just think she’s looking up at him because he’s so much taller than her. Plus, if my husband was just nominated for the Supreme Court, I’d probably look like I was proud of him. I don’t see why we need to attack her, I really don’t know anything about her.