ROSIE DUNNE

some girls retain their girl-next-door aura years later. even if they've become successful, professional-whatevers. and if they haven't achieved fortune & fame, they're still cool b/c they'll always have the title. and i suppose there's something alluring about that. some girls even spend whoknowshowmany hours tyring to look like the girl next door. sadly, some of us can never be jello.

how come i picture the girls as pretty enough, but i have this innate anxiety around the boys being dorky and scraggly? i guess it's those years of watching family ties. oh, skippy. dork or no dork though, so many of them end up together anyway. the beauty of close quarters in the formative years. ha. sounds like a TLC or discovery special.

i guess i can relate to rosie, more b/c of the attitude, less b/c i'd have caused more irreparable damage, and i don't have a childhood boy-friend.

C fits ruby. a true pal. smart enough to tell you what you want to hear, but friend enough to warn you (though not-so-aggressively) when your heart needs protection. and of course there's no pity for the fool. a lot of pointing and laughing, but no pity.

i wonder if the story would have worked if divorce didn't exist? WHAT IF divorce wasn't an option. would all those years have gone by wasted?