Goodreads asked Stephen T. Brophy:

Who is your favorite fictional couple, and why?

Stephen T. Brophy Nick and Nora Charles from The Thin Man stories rank way up there, largely because they both genuinely loved and genuinely liked each other, were equally acerbically quick-witted, and of course, took unfettered pleasure in their post-Prohibition-era conspicuous consumption of adult beverages. Also, when I first started dating my wife, she was a social worker dealing with the homeless population of San Francisco, and our frequent encounters with the colorfully nicknamed and eccentric people who were her clients reminded me of when Nick and Nora would run across his old underworld pals during their adventures.

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