nah it was an email if I do decide to respond, I think a physical letter is the way

Regardless you have multiple stages of death associated with any natural disaster, currently people who were hit by Helene are in stage 2: people with chronic medical conditions who can no longer manage them begin to die. People die from contaminated water. From accidents with power tools.

it’s just been my adult life, the real surprise was having a few years off from it til now 💀

it feels cruel not to tell him anything, but telling him things has not gone great for yours truly

we shared everything we could with anyone who asked a year later, I was tearing my hair out because a local business made a huge donation to the radio station that was straight up reading our news on the air around the clock because he was so grateful to them for the news 😂😂😂 it be that way lol

we had a GIS wizard volunteer step forward to help us map closed roads because the counties were doing things like sending us Word docs with lists that would immediately be upended by reality “real-time dynamic info”: to this day, not so much a thing in local gov’t he was on Twitter, I miss him

(Annihilation, that is, not Lolita)

while we’re on the topic: I made my therapist read it and then broke up with him anyway 😂 no regrets

I mean I was for sure gonna remember cause Annihilation is a very important book to me, save that sorry for after I write a novel that rearranges your brain 😝💜

aaaaa is what you say when its bad for you, ooooo is when it’s bad for somebody else