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I have a hunch that the writers take turns writing this strip. That's cool cause they each have 3-day weekends, but the other side is that it turns Mary Worth into one of those stories that you make in a creative writing group, where everybody writes a part and then passes it on, and the story line gets a little unclear while the multiple authors fight for control.

After Mary rambled on about the benefits of pets in our lives for a week, she launched into a new topic: "Pets Being Allowed At Charterstone." Uh-oh! She's going to have to put up a fight! This storyline lasted exactly two days, at which point we came back to the topic of "Benefits of Pets in Our Lives". Where are we going with this one? I think it's the new writer, Karen Moy, who's the young upstart trying to get things in motion, such as a plot that leads someplace. Meanwhile old Joe Giella is sabotaging the effort by having Mary blather on about animals for weeks at a time. Remember last summer when apparently Giella was on vacation, and there was that great rapid bit where the two-timer got caught in the act, and everything happened within one week, with lots of blazing backgrounds and awkwardly drawn horses? Then all of a sudden it all slowed down again. Guess Giella came back.

Anyway, has anybody noticed how many things in Mary's life are pink?
Besides her jaunty scarf and bike helmet/hat, now her neighbor's jumpsuit and even the couch are pink. It's also nice to see that Mary's living room is encased by framed pictures of lettuce.