Finales

In the spirit of "Friends'" end, I thought I'd take a moment to remember one of my favorite finale memories... that of "the Wonder Years." Maybe I related to the show because I was roughly the same age as the characters, or maybe it's because I was looking for answers and the narrator seemed to sum up what it was I needed to hear:

"Winnie left the next summer to study art history in Paris. Still we never forgot our promise. We wrote to each other once a week for the next eight years. I was there to meet her, when she came home, with my wife and my first son, eight months old.

"Like I said, things never turn out exactly the way you planned.

"Growing up happens in a hartbeat. One day you're in diapers; next day you're gone. But the memories of childhood stay with you for the long haul.

"I remember a place...a town...
a house like a lot of other houses...
A yard like a lot of other yards...
On a street like a lot of other streets.
And the thing is...
After all these years,
I still look back...with WONDER."