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    Image of Pizza!Pizza!Pizza! Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Why do I have the feeling this'll be the most hits Obit mag has ever gotten?
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Deadwood, anyone?


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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    The Police: Oh, cant you see, You belong to me

    How my poor heart aches, With every step you take


    Every move you make, Every vow you break

    Every smile you fake, Every claim you stake

    Ill be watching you.

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    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    There is an "Obit Mag"?
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Mary McCarthy's advice: "Marry him and then have an affair with his brother and his best friend."
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    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
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    Image of prestocaro fears the culling prestocaro fears the culling
    04/29/09

    @Jack_Burton: ahahah! AWESOME. I friend you now.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    While based on the writing and inuendo this woman sounds atrocious, what do you all think of the situation in general? What if the brother in law likes her back? Personally, I don't see anything absolutely horrible about this. (Though I also always thought Hamlet was overreacting...)
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    Image of AlmostDream AlmostDream
    04/29/09

    @LaComtesse: It's super creepy that she's been lusting after her sister's husband for years and now that her sister is dead she sees it as an opportunity to finally get him. And it doesn't sound like he likes her back...
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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    04/29/09

    @LaComtesse: If the woman didn't seem like a bitch who was reveling her sister's death, I wouldn't really see the problem. If they both have feelings for each other, why not?
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    Image of slowpoke.r slowpoke.r
    04/29/09

    @LaComtesse: The situation in general doesn't seem problematic, but these specifics seem creepy and distasteful.


    Also, wasn't Hamlet upset because his uncle murdered his father in order to marry his mother, not just because they married?


    Which makes me wonder if Randi may have helped her sis along somehow...yikes.

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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    @almostdream: But she didn't say anything in that time, I mean: you can't help who you fall in love with sometimes.


    @save_jinger: It's her tone that makes this awful.

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    Image of Laura Enriquez Laura Enriquez
    04/29/09

    @LaComtesse: If the brother-in-law was interested and the woman was willing to wait until her sister was actually cold in her grave before making a move and both could handle it was tact and decorum, then there is nothing inherently wrong with the situation. However, nothing in that letter makes me think any of those things are true in this case.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    @slowpoke.r: Hamlet was all mopey and annoying before this information came to light (the whole "frailty thy name is woman!" bit comes up before the ghost scene).


    @PersonalBest: Well... I guess Randi is. I guess my thought was a lot of people would be icked out by this even if everyone in this situation was nice: but why?

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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    @Laura Enriquez: Agreed.
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    Image of YourScreenplaySucks YourScreenplaySucks
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Bette Davis: Buckle your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy Thanksgiving family dinner.


    Carla Bruni: I don't understand what the problem is here. Why all the fuss?


    Bjork: Kiwi. Starlight. I am a grateful grapefruit, eskimo girl.

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    04/29/09

    @Your Screenplay Sucks: Bjork: Kiwi. Starlight. I am a grateful grapefruit, eskimo girl.


    Oh, snap! You tell her, Björk!

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    Image of The Queen of No The Queen of No
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    What the hell does her dead sister's diabetes and obesity have to do with anything?
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    Image of save jinger save jinger
    04/29/09

    @The Queen of No: Because it is less sad when a fat, diabetic person dies because she brought it on herself, obvs.
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    Image of queenieinmanhattan queenieinmanhattan
    04/29/09

    @The Queen of No: Isn't it her way of saying that she's younger, hotter, and raring to go?
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    Image of pear.shaped.Sara pear.shaped.Sara
    04/29/09

    @The Queen of No: Because she is presumably neither of these things, so he must surely love her even more than he loved her sister. Barf.
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    Image of Kali Mama Kali Mama
    04/29/09

    @The Queen of No: Because that would explain the triple dose of insulin in her blood?


    *front row ticket to hell*

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    Image of Dictator for Life Dictator for Life
    04/29/09

    @The Queen of No: I would bet that it has everything to do with her bro-in-law knowing how she looked down on his wife, and resenting her for her uppity-ness.
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    Image of BicSharpie BicSharpie
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    I like how the letter writer points out the fact that she is better than her dead sister. Like that makes it better.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Tristan Ludlow: All you had is dead. As she is dead. Marry another.
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    04/29/09

    @LaComtesse: Of course, in "Legends of the Fall," the chick WANTED to marry her dead fiance's middle brother, but wound up marrying the eldest brother, so perhaps the Ludlow family wouldn't be the best judge of this situation...
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    Image of Aesop's Foibles. YES. Aesop's Foibles. YES.
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Well, this person is alive and well, but....


    Judge Judy: You, madam, are a despicable person. Despicable! I'm speaking!!!! I'm SPEAKing!!!!!!!

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    Image of roscoe roscoe
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    jerry springer: so...
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    Image of badmutha badmutha
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    Yoda: Foolish, you are. Talk, people will. It is better for you to seek another.
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    Image of Mary McCarthyite Mary McCarthyite
    04/29/09

    @badmutha: Chuckling, I am, to myself. Quietly.
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    Image of hfree hfree
    04/29/09

    In reply to What To Do When You're In Love With Your Sister's Widower?
    You forgot Henry VIII: Marry your brother's widow with care for God will not bless the union with a son, but with his guidance he will lead you to a comely young lass and allow you to break with the Church.


    (or something like that. Point is, he and Katherine were happy for 30 years until he pulled that whole "you were my brother's wife" BS on her)

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