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Bluenorthwest

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1. What's with the word 'spinster'? Is this 1898?

Reply to DetlefK (Original post)

Fri Jun 24, 2016, 08:06 AM

Jun 2016

Plus she's not a 'spinster' as she is married to Max Handelman. They have kids, that sort of thing. Married persons.

spin·ster
ˈspinstər/
nounderogatory
noun: spinster; plural noun: spinsters

an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.

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28yo spinster too old to play girlfriend of 26yo actor [View all] DetlefK Jun 2016 OP

What's with the word 'spinster'? Is this 1898? Bluenorthwest Jun 2016 #1

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