Learned a lot from this piece, Maria. Thank you for it

I wonder how many in my cohort were first introduced to her via a Tex Avery cartoon

Ha! Now I'll end up down a rabbit hole of what that a/e mashup is called, what the keyboard shortcut for it is, etc. Damn your eyes!

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How did I not know this...

Mine have been of the obvious-at-glance sort: the duck-face/lips pic with vacuous profile description and no posts. You know like Twitter 😆 🤷‍♂️

I don't know if any of it was somehow preserved, but I could read exchanges between dfw and his editors for the rest of my life

Odd coincidence that I was just contemplating this very thing this morning: texts and voice mails from the departed. Decided not to decide