We had great careers, plenty of short-lived relationships, but no enduring romantic prospects and no children.
People there have survived the monsoon living in tin shacks, but now face the prospect of enduring a freezing winter in their temporary shelters.
By the time the great snowstorm of October 2011 finally ended early Sunday, more than three million customers would find themselves without power and with the prospect of enduring several more days without it.
Could just one number, performed weedily by Keira Knightley at the beginning of this romcom, cause your body to self-combust at the prospect of enduring 90-odd minutes of a movie obsessed with authenticity but as phoney as a Miley Cyrus dance routine?
Across 8,000 quake-ravaged square miles, which include some of Asia's most majestic and forbidding terrain, victims are facing the prospect of enduring a second consecutive summer monsoon in flimsy sheds, flood-prone and inviting to mosquitoes.
The prospect of enduring overlordship from nearby Leinster, as compared to the more distant and anaemic overlordship of Munster, appears to have compelled the Dubliners to oppose the Leinstermen.
But the prospects of enduring political change through renewal are probably much greater than through liberalization.
A dark cloud has lifted, and though tensions and challenges clearly remain, prospects for enduring stability in the Balkans have greatly improved.
Death haunts the movie from the start, when a partner in crime expires in Santiago's arms; the existential race against time and the enduring despair at meagre prospects conflict with the prudent cares of family life, and Ulmer's hectic images combine with the bitter plot to leave the moral issues angrily in doubt.
And next week a musical comedy about the family's escapades will begin previews on Broadway, after a reworking of that musical's script — a step judged necessary during a pre-Broadway run in Chicago to assure Morticia, Gomez, Uncle Fester, Lurch and the others some prospect of an enduring life in New York, the city where Addams dwelt for 50 years.
