I always found lots of Charity shops a sign of affluence.
Shows inhabitants have spare time to do an unpaid job.
Also shows other inhabitants have spare stuff of saleable quality.
He made it.
Mary married an accountant and faded into obscurity, for Midge it was too much too soon, his drug fuelled fall from grace was well documented in the Sunday papers, a sad end, and a salutory warning to all budding young stars...
Feeble attempt to make the reality show of her adjusting to "real life" sound interesting in a "If she can't post a letter what else can't she do? kind of way...
Primary death followed by secondery death making her utterly & totally unquestionably dead....No chance of her in a zombified state wandering mindlessly about drooling and making horrible noises............Hang on though ..?