Elsie always told stories \u2014 sent to curtesy school so that she could be presented to the Queen Mother, meeting Sachmo in a club on New Year\u2019s Eve high in the mountains of Switzerland, a universal donor giving a live blood transfusion on a medical mission because she was the only one with a blood type card. The skeins of stories knitted together, creating coherence, consistency, and veracity. Wild but convincing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The new stories are different. Unanchored. The tapestry of the impossible – a unicorn in a fantasy garden. \u201cI\u2019ve called her every day. I know her. I drove to their house. I found their address. I found their address in the telephone book. 911 gave me their address. And I delivered my gift to them.\u201d Elise hadn\u2019t driven in over five years, although she still kept her license, a reliable state ID. 411, now a computer voice, asks for but neither gives nor confirms addresses. And the phone book, without a land line has entireties of vapor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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