The characters in this comic strip fret about the (i)____________ of their "little counterculture lives", especially when terrible things are happening in the world, but the cartoonist makes their lives (ii)____________ in ways that do not seem (iii)____________ at all. Real things happen here – births, deaths, adoptions, affairs, breakups, commitments, ceremonies, civil union – and they matter. A. unpredictability B. stagnate C. outlandish D. arduousness E. resonate F. inconsequential G. triviality H. compete I. intangible