** spoiler alert ** 
 Pants = love. 
 The final book of the summers. Wonderful. Bridget, Tibby, Lena and Carmen closed their lives as girls living at home and got lost in who they were about to become. Aside from slight annoyance with Tibby (which is normal for me) the girls coming into their own was heart wrenching and I could most definitely relate. 
 I was pleased that they learned that they no longer needed the Pants in the way that they used to and that the Pants most perfectly brought them together in the end. The loss of the Pants was not the tragedy it could have been. 
 Now I yearn for dirt floors, warm suns, daring adventure, and loving friends beside me.