>>94126587Actually, in the story I mentioned the "kids" are in their late teens to early twenties. Phil and Gertie are gone, there's no Miles or Stella, and Helga never confessed so, yes, Arnold is truly lonely.
He tried a relationship with Rhonda first, but she tried to fix him by adapting him to her world. That failed miserably, of course, and when he drifted into Nadine's orbit she was even more isolated than he was. Their relationship, for far different reasons, also was doomed to fail.
The lesson is that even though two people might in fact make sense as a couple, if there's no spark between them all of their perceived compatibility is a waste.
