Love (Really) Is All Around

What ‘The Mary Tyler Moore Show’ taught me about the life and death of the office family

Eileen Pollack
Index
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12 min readJul 26, 2021

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Stir-crazy during the wintry months of the pandemic, I found myself gobbling up two or three episodes of the old Mary Tyler Moore Show every night. When the series originally ran in the 1970s, I was too wrapped up in my own teenage travails to really care. The lead…

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Eileen Pollack
Index
Writer for

Eileen is the author, most recently, of Maybe It's Me: On Being the Wrong Kind of Woman