https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/10/13/coconut-flan-fiction-catherine-lacey
Did you ever read a story and feel the protagonist in the story could be you? This is the story of an extremely passive, dependent woman in Mexico who loses her passport. Every bit of description diminishes anything of note about her. Even her voice is referred to as "little." Nobody seems to see her or remember her. Frightening in its own way. My therapist would think I wrote this. How easily this woman could disappear in a crowd.
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Funny, because I don't really see you that way.
Likewise, Patti...I see you as both more accomplished and more likely to speak your mind than this would tend to imply...at least, you don't come across like that at all, rather than polite but interested in what's going on with others...in our relative few face to face meetings (a couple/few? Two cons, a NoirCon and a BoucherCon, at least) and in correspondence. But the current state of the world certainly can be demoralizing and overwhelming, and loss never helps. Health fun coming along with later years, as well, I'm noting.
I am glad you don't see me this way. Yes, perhaps the world has made me feel more like this.
This probably won't cheer you up, but its backward upside is that it limns several of the Drumpfian failures (that, of course, tend to hurt the rest of us more than him and his toadies): https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-we-partying-like-its-1999
Just to add to the conversation, Patti, you are a breath of fresh and a walk in the park on a sunny May afternoon.
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