Silence is not an option. For any of us.

     Dearly beloved: we are gathered here today to mourn Al’s marriageability in a timely manner. Why? Not because her Dad is dead and “no one will ever be him” [Cue: score of Yentl], not because she has “intimacy issues,” or because she broke up with her twenty-something long-term boyfriend in London before they could agree that getting married was easier than splitting their books up. Al’s marriage-before-40 likelihood is as faded and impossible as that Hilary stick...