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Jonathan Goldstein

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Appearances Over Time

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I mean, like, we are who we are.

I think as long as we're alive, we're able to change.

I'm working on a story that should come out this season.

It's about a woman who is 102 years old who one day her kids who are in their 70s said, you're getting on in age, we should probably clean up the storage room.

And while they were doing that, they found this box

Containing 256 letters that had been sent to her by her fiancΓ© at the time when she was like 20, who was in the war.

This was World War II, who died in the war.

And she had not opened up this box and looked at these letters in over 80 years.

and had never really mourned the loss of this man and this relationship.

She put it aside, and she married a man named Irving, stayed married with him for 60-odd years, had three kids, and then finds his box, and then finds herself at the age of 102 falling in love with this long-dead young man from her past.

And in that process, like, she...

you know, a person who was very used to, and maybe that's a little generational too, is like, you just pack it up and put it in a box and move on, but it sticks with you.

And like, you know, she, she went through a lot of changes even at that age, which is kind of like, um,

As long as like we're alive and as, you know, as long as we keep going, there's always going to be change, you know, maybe not the change that other people want to see, but we're, there's going to be changes.

I mean, I guess the first thing that comes into my head is my child's birth.