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Maybe back then it was, who knows. From your earlier post, I guess it was around late 1950s-early 1960? At that time it was common in America to call a woman "toots" ☺

What are they?

I can assure you that it's not true and never was ☺

Anfisa also mentioned she had savings and was living on them after she kicked Jorge out.

But it's not all about looks, or is it? What about their personalities?

This might be so true - it's amazing how little children can interpret what we say to them, and we don't even know. For example, when Luis started the "Spanish lesson" by asking her "Do you know what this color is called in Spanish?", I felt she the girl thought she is being tested and that she was somehow failing for not knowing the answer.

Evelyn: "This is just a little song I wrote when I was taking a shower" ?

Maybe this is why the distracting lipstick - it acts as a disguise.

May probably doesn't know what "daddy" means. She probably thinks it's his name.

True, but if you think about it, she'd need to find a brand new fiance in 3 months. What kind of a man would it be? Someone who'd marry a woman he met less than 3 months ago, probably knowing that she came here for another man. Would this kind of adventurous person be a good husband?

I was mostly talking about Nicole's relationship with veggies ☺

I once saw a British documentary show about a boy who didn't eat anything but fries. His parents didn't know how to change his eating habit (he was about 4-5 years old). Turned out that when he was 2, he got meningitis, and he was very ill for a long time during the time when his eating habits were supposed to be forming. As a result, all food seemed scary and foreign to him. When the parents tried to make him eat normal food, he would freak out. The expert started by placing bowls of mystery goo in front of the parents and asking them to eat it. They understandably couldn't. He then explained that normal food is like this mystery stuff for their son. He said that they were making a mistake by not letting him play with the food and by forcing him to eat normally. He encouraged the child to touch the food, smell it, rearrange it and do all the things that kids aren't supposed to do. The parents did this for a few weeks and he started eating.

You should have put some horseradish on it, that's what makes it ☺

I would still find a silver lining for Josh. Yes, she chose America, but in America, she picked Josh, even though there probably were other candidates.

Some say that Andrey's attitude towards women is typical Eastern European, but I think that most American men wouldn't be too keen on their wives clubbing until 4 am without them. When I look at Andrey and Elizabeth, the word that comes to mind for both of them is "gopnik".