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Three is either a charm or a curse – depending on your point of view – and there are plenty of people gloating or kvetching today.

“People, and particularly women, tend to kvetch and converse and complain about what offends them, and then they vote according to what affects them,” she said.

It’s a screeching, sputtering display of kvetching that builds runaway comic momentum.

Then in the final year of the decade, that changed, and a glut of anxious men arrived, kvetching, quipping and dating shiksas.

Edelman is struck — and perhaps a little soothed — by the amount of kvetching in the room.