My wife and I just watched the show. It's great that Raymond and Peter seem well on the path to recovery; but I hope that Sandra's passing doesn't set Peter back. I also hope that Donald can yet see the light, before he loses everything.
I, too, feel the passing of local assets. I was born and raised in Newton; but I have the accent and vocabulary of my mother's Worcester family. Those things, like so many others in different parts of the country, are being homogenized out of existence by radio, TV and movies. Some day, we'll have a dozen or so regional accents and vocabularies, and that will be it.
