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...talk show host and housewife, is leading the Newton Temple Beth-El Sisterhood on a tour of London. The youngest, Pfeni Rosensweig, is a travel writer just in from Bombay. Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux furrier from Brooklyn, who arrives at Sara's house to give something to Geoffrey and stays for dinner...
...hesitant to accept me into their lives. These girls resent my presence in the common room, and they are now competing against me for their roommate's attention. They frequently throw tantrums in front of us, and say things like, "You're not as neat as Kim's first boyfriend." How can I gain their trust and affection? --New Man in Her Life...
First, understand that the roommates feel threatened: your girlfriend used to belong exclusively to them. Secondly, they still have strong memories of their roommate's first boyfriend. Making a transition is difficult for them...
...them in your new life with your girlfriend. Play catch with them. If you go on a business trip, bring each of them a little souvenir. Include them in your outings with your girlfriend. And finally--if things seem to be going especially well--ask them to call you "Boyfriend...
...that's why I applied to school, I thought I've got to get out of this, I've got to pull myself together. Yes, I was terrified. When I went to Holyoke, there was the saying, "Smith to bed, Holyoke to wed." And I did have a Yale boyfriend, who was my high school boyfriend, and a part of me just thought, I should do all these things I don't really want to do, but if you do them, then you're fine, and no one will [worry] about you. I really thought, go to business school, move...