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Sometimes it feels like we lose touch with old friends. But when a reader spots the prodigal pal and dutifully records the encounter for all of us to share, it's like they never left:

On Sunday (June 26th), I spotted a bony woman devouring a sandwich on the first floor handbag section of Barneys. Dressed like a disheveled vagabond in tapered ankle-length pants, heavy clog-like shoes with socks, and large loose shirt falling off her skeleton of a figure, she sported a cloth baseball cap, bordering somewhere between tacky tourist/homeless bum/one of those kooky old ladies sitting by her metal cart of junk at the bus stop. After seeing her shove a wrapped sandwich into her mouth, looking as if she hadn't eaten in days, I took a good look at the pale face and realized it was none other than Winona Ryder, the notorious shoplifter. She was buying tons of stuff at the Barneys sale all while simultaneously stuffing her face. She had horrible posture, standing hunched over with her shoulder bones jetting out like an old grandma, and did not resemble the fresh-faced demure young actress I once thought she was. Poor Winona.

There's no reason to be sad. While it's certainly regrettable any time someone of Ryder's stature begins to take their fashion and dietary cues from the Olsen Twins, her confinement to the handbag section shows that she might have finally put her light-fingered past behind her. Even the most inveterate shoplifter knows that it's virtually impossible to explain the presence of a new, obviously purloined handbag inside the one you carried into the store. Noni seems all better now.