Emma: At the end of last episode, we saw all of the girls sort of hit rock bottom -- this episode, we got at least a bit of resolution.
Lori F.: So let's start with ... Marnie?

FOR LOVE OR MONEY?
Emma: Marnie is having better sex than...

THE SECRET
Emma: So we open with Adam this time.
Lori L.: Yes!
Emma: I'm excited that we've gotten to see more of him without Hannah this season.
Lori L.: Me too. He's so much more interesting/likable when he's separate from her.
Margaret: It feels...

"I DON'T LIKE NOT GETTING JOKES"
Margaret Wheeler Johnson: I thought this was a brilliant concept for an episode. Jessa's backstory is by far the most interesting of all the girls', I think, and after a season and a half, we're finally getting...

TALL BLOND STRANGER
Margaret: So, did we think there was any purpose to the first scene other than to introduce Joshua? And to allow Ray the opportunity to tell Grumpy's customers, "Go back to your panda videos. Or I'll turn off the wifi"?
Lori L.: To show Ray's...

"YOU DON'T SEEM THAT FANCY"
Lori Leibovich: So I thought the opening scene of this episode was one of the most realistic depictions of online journalism that I've ever seen.
Emma Gray: It definitely got to the sort of ridiculous core of a lot of our confessional writing...

Margaret Wheeler Johnson: I just want to say that I love Hannah exercising by herself with her laptop while Elijah and George are fighting and how we overhear the instructor saying, "Don't worry about messing up." Also that Hannah is wearing approximately the same thing as the instructor.
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Why did you write this book?
When...

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Margaret Wheeler Johnson: "Girls" Episode 8: I really, really did not feel good about this episode.
Lori Fradkin: I didn't either -- I feel like every other episode of "Girls" makes me happy.

THE INEVITABLE

Margaret: I was either pissed off or sad this whole episode.

Margaret Wheeler Johnson: "Girls" Episode 6. Who wants to begin?

VOYAGE TO THE MIDWEST

Lori Fradkin: This was the first episode that was really all about Hannah.
Emma Gray: I thought it was a really nice way of delving into her character a little more -- taking...

THE AFTERMATH

Margaret: "Girls" Episode Five. Go.
Lori F.: Overall this episode just made me sad. I started to tell a friend about it, and I was like, "Never mind -- it's just too much."
Lori L.: "Too much" how?
Lori F.: "Girls" is always...

THE SEXTING

Margaret Wheeler Johnson: Episode 4 of "Girls": here we go. So we're almost to the anniversary of Anthony Weiner's special sexts. Good timing, "Girls."
Lori Fradkin: How sh*tty for Hannah to get that text from Adam, and then get, "Oops, wrong number."
Margaret: It didn't surprise...

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"Are...

For Florence and Sam, it really was "'til death do us part."

With Sam right beside her, Florence quietly passed away in the bed they had shared for 59 years. It was Valentine's Day.

We asked Sam, after she died, what kept their relationship fresh, what kept them happily and...

Ten years ago, I was a newly engaged 30-year-old woman who had a wedding to plan. What I had imagined would be a giddy year filled with cake tastings and gown fittings was actually one of the most confusing times of my life. Did I love my fiancé? Check. Did...

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