Hugh Hefner died at age 91 on Sept. 27. While the death of a human being is never something to be celebrated, it would seem an appropriate time to weigh in on his legacy and the cultural movement he was a part of.
My grandparents used to tell me of the days when people met in classes or at dances, courted in ways that now seem brief and highly structured, then married, often for life. I was raised around elderly people who had fallen out of love, but whose sense of duty kept them together. Many of them fell back in love later in life.