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1. Stacy RWY (Met at a Just Plain Folks meeting for lovers of folk music and the such, at a hunting-lodge-for-rich-weirdos-sort-of-house. She's my first Jewish friend, my first friend to have children, my friend with the biggest boobs, and my only friend who plays the djembe)
2. Jenna K (Stacy's Music Producer's daughter. My goth sister. When we met for the first time, we stood across from each other and...

1. London Kills Me 1991

(life is gritty, street-level woe, until you leave everyone behind but yourself)

1. Local Hero 1983 (The Scottish-Texan connection.)
2. Comfort and Joy 1984 ("That's MY story! It really happened to me!")
3. The Best Years of Our Lives 1946 (Greatest story ever told...how to endure tommorow and tommorow and tommorow)
4. Deep Red 1975 (Ah, the protagonist's facial reflection in a pool of blood f...

1. Your biology will betray you every single time in ways so tragic, you never thought them possible.
2. Wm. Shatner is really your best role model for a life well-lived, because he justs exists on a planet without a plan and hits alls the highs and lows along the way.
3. It's only funny if it hurts--crushingly.