Real-Life Golden Girls! D.C. Women Have Been Friends and Roommates for 50 Years: 'We Consider Ourselves a Family'

"Everybody's interested in how in the world we've gotten along so well for so many years," Barbara Fletcher tells PEOPLE. "And the answer is we don't know," the 76-year-old continues. "We fell into a really good situation and it has just continued to work well." Working well is an understatement. For five decades, Fletcher and her roommates Nancy Fassett, 85, and Margaret Sugg, 87, have lived under one roof - supporting each other through career changes, relationships and all of life's travails....