[Ann Drysdale]

Thanks for your honesty, Sarah-Jane. I appreciate it.

And I'm sorry I posted, too. This is Mark's thread and his poem is such a good one. I'm not particularly proud of my contribution to the anthology. It was a Facebook post and Merryn asked if she could use it instead of the one she'd already chosen, which was about soup.

I am not financially very well off, but I am white and a long way past fifty; of an age, in fact, that brought with it a degree of vulnerability that has kept me under house arrest for over a year. Perhaps that's what made me so defensively tearful when I read your post. I can't help being who and what I am and I'm not quite sure how I can atone for it.

In a world of Millennials and Boomers and X-Y-Z's, I must remind myself that mine is, officially, The Silent Generation. I shall try to behave accordingly.

I shall try, too, to trick out my paranoia with a sprig of objectivity. Forgive me?

Editing in: reply to Mark (below). Post-Bobbins? Yer on.
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