When I was a kid, I had this twisted little fantasy that the characters on television were my friends. I would talk to them and tell them what was troubling me. About the time I was 7, I realized they weren't talking back. But, I still found great comfort in TV. Mary Richards was charming but rather antiseptic. Lucy Ricardo was zany but she would have been annoying to hang out with. I would have eventually had to yell at her. Edith Bunker was delightful but there was Archie t

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