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True Blue and Tight Like Glue-Maybe? (A Solemn Reminder About Real Sisterhood and Friendship)

"Keep ya head up (what), Keep ya head (that's right) Whenever this life gets tough you gotta fight With my home girls standing to my left and my right True Blue...And Tight Like Glue" One of my favorite television shows back in the day "Living Single". It was based on four women who were not only roommates and family (or like family) but were also really good friends. The theme music says it all: "In a nineties kinda world I'm glad I got my girls". The show chronicled their journey through life together, and it allowed the audience to see the characters' flaws, disagreements, fall outs and reconciliations as time went on. This show was sisterhood in action. Nowadays there is no show on television that compares to it. Today's shows portray women gossiping, fighting, trying to steal each other's men, etc.... I guess whether it is "Living Single" from the nineties or some ratchet show today--art imitates life? I wonder if i...