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5783, the 759th. prime.

Money got tight

5784 = 23 × 3 × 241

And they just didn’t count on

5785 = 5 x 13 x 89

The tears

5786 = 2 × 11 × 263

They lived for a while in a

5787

Very nice style

5788 = 22 x 1447

But it’s always the same in the end

5789 = 7 × 827

They got a divorce as a matter

5790

Of course

[Just because I’m curious–has anybody else ever know a real-life “Brenda and Eddie”? I sure have.]

5791, 760th. prime.

And they parted the closest

[Yes, I have. My wife has developed a Law according to which the more extravagant and lavish the wedding party, the sooner and bitterer the divorce, and vice versa. Holds pretty well, though the sample size is admittedly very small.]

5792

Of friends

[In my case, “Brenda and Eddie” were Sue and Jeff. He was the Big Man on our high school campus, and she was the head cheerleader. I’ve kept in touch with them via Facebook. He’s summited Everest twice, while she has won awards for equestrian dressage. Extremely well off, both of them.

But a few years ago, things went south. Jeff found somebody younger (he’s my age, early 60s, putting him at about 55 when this happened, and so is/was Sue), and the marriage fell apart. I’m of the understanding that it was a very messy divorce, involving kids, horses, real estate, holdings of investments in the US and Canada, and so on. They may have been the popular steadies, and the king and the queen of the prom, but they “sure didn’t count on the tears.”]

5793 = 3 × 1931

Then the king and the queen went

5794 = 2 x 2897

Back to the green

5795

But you can never go back

5796 = 22 x 32 x 7 x 23

There again

[Well, the couples I thought of were not in the same league as Sue and Jeff, and they did not wait until the kids were grown up to declare war.]

5797 = 11 × 17 × 31

Brenda and Eddie had had it

5798

Already by the summer of '75

[Sue and Jeff are each fine people, but maybe they had too much too soon, like Brenda and Eddie, and couldn’t handle it.]

5799 = 3 × 1933

From the high to the low to

5800!

The end of the show

5801, prime

For the rest of their lives

5802 = 2 × 3 × 967

They couldn’t go back to