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Not to jinx Tim and Gaelyn, but my son’s due date was April 1, and he came 10 days early on March 21 - so...could be any day!

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Oh my goodness. David Tennet would be an AMAZING Henry Higgins. David, you should be in charge of Hollywood casting.

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It's great to hear Jessie again. When I was reading the play I was wondering how would Eliza actually sound like. Now you removed that question. I hope Heidi feels better by now.

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This was tremendously helpful in parsing out the answer to a question that I had forgotten to post: the play iterates constantly "what do you do with Eliza when this is over? What is to become of her?" And no one ever answers the question.

As we see by the conclusion, Eliza isn't equipped to take care of herself, without the bachelors of Whimpole Street. Without Colonel Pickering, she can't make her business flourish and she can't count on Freddy to do anything but deliver flowers because he has less information than she does. It is rather interesting to look at it through a socialistic lens, even though I looked at it through a Christian charity lens.

Ultimately the experiment fails to make Eliza a lady through imitation because it lacks substance. She, more or less, just loses one barrier to a decent marriage- her poor presentation. Her prospects don't actually change all that much.

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