The TV show Friends started before I left New York and ended when I’d been in Scotland for quite a long time. It was my constant in that period of transition, and others. It eased some third-culture issues, and won me some friends with my Janice impression. I’d sit and count the references to Long Island, when I missed it. It saw me through the deaths of my grandparents, the dissolving of the family I came over here for, and…
