Smiling blonde woman pops out of a striped gift box with bright green tissue on a red background, flanked by green cursive text reading “Quelle Surprise!” and “I Love Betty!”

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Few songs capture the bittersweet passage of time quite like "Martha."

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Thirty?nine years ago today, Time magazine decided the only logical thing to put on its March 2, 1987, cover was…