For me, this is the saddest strip of this story. I would tell girls out there reading this that Martha’s decision should not be yours. You don’t need to choose between a boy and your friends and any boy that makes you choose is not the boy for you. Mr. Howtheduck did not ask me to do that and I have been married for 25 years. I have friends I have known since I was five years old, and when my mother died last year, they were a great comfort to me having known both me and my mom for most of my life.
For me, this is the saddest strip of this story. I would tell girls out there reading this that Martha’s decision should not be yours. You don’t need to choose between a boy and your friends and any boy that makes you choose is not the boy for you. Mr. Howtheduck did not ask me to do that and I have been married for 25 years. I have friends I have known since I was five years old, and when my mother died last year, they were a great comfort to me having known both me and my mom for most of my life.