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Poor Gina. She's really had a cross to bear, making sacrifices for her family. It just doesn't seem fair. Stupid family.

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There's something else?? You mean something that is different from Jenna and Mike and Liza and Lynn and Jill and Adrian... all of whom were darn certain love was not for them because of something that happened in their past? There's something else? Coooool.

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First Date Conversation: "There really isn't that much to tell. I'm a waitress. I'm in the witness protection program. And the love of my life is Bobby Black, who I haven't seen since I was 14. What else would you like to know about me?"

Edited to add: How many fingers does Mary have on her hand today?

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"I've been using my ponytail as an antenna to transmit my love thoughts, but so far... no response."

Just a heads up. We received a recorded telephone message from Pepco, our power company, that went something like this: "Hi, in case you aren't familiar with our horrible reputation, we wanted to let you know that we plan to fail at keeping your lights on during the coming storm." So, given Hurricane Irene's impact here in Maryland, I may not be able to keep up on Mary Worth for a few days. Hopefully I won't miss anything exciting.

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It's hard to get over your 14-year-old crush, isn't it? Who among us hasn't looked back on that innocent time of acne and hormones with a sweet longing that throws us into a tailspin or self pity and despair over Fate's cruel blows, driving us to share our heartache with any passing stranger to the neglect of Table 7.

My 14-year-old crush was Jenny Johnson. How I pined for her, until Fate's cruel blow... wait a minute. No, I moved on. When I was FIFTEEN.

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"Bobby's words sank deep in my heart. From that moment on, I swore I would never change. And, that, Mary, is why I still wear this ponytail."

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Even though my heart was broken, I was so excited to visit Bobby at his tree and tell him that my father had witnessed a gruesome mob-related killing and we were joining the witness protection program and that we would be living in Santa Royale, California, and changing our name to Baroni. We couldn't keep in touch for safety reasons, but he could always look up at the moon and know that I'd be looking at the same moon and thinking of his deflated basketball.

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Well, I go to the beach for a couple of days, and when I come back, the story seems stalled. However, the setting is moving forward so I figure I'll just go with it. I'm glad to see they're back in Diner, though, because it's been on my mind. As we were passing through Seaford, Delaware, we came across this fine eating establishment:



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Of course. Because the Baroni family is Italian. And all New York Italian families witness gruesome mob-related killings all the time.

I am not much for predicting where a storyline may be headed; I mean, what's the point? But in this case, I'm hoping that the Baroni family moves to California, and Gina, totally blown by Fate's cruel hand, never sees Bobby again. But fortunately, Fate's other hand, the kind one, has introduced her to Mary Worth. And Mary Worth knows Wilbur Weston. And Wilbur Weston knows a little something about a thing called Facebook.

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Holy cow! Triple Face Touch! I think that's a new record. And it's a good thing they all touched their faces -- otherwise, how else would we know they were scared.

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