Your correspondent writes to you from a Dunkin’ Donuts at the intersection of Milwaukee and Chicago, where she is breaking fast with a regrettable bagel (Always the egg and cheese wrap! Always! Even if it doesn’t appear on the menu!) and coffee. Life is mysterious as usual and she is ruminating on the eternal sacrifice, man’s perennial longing to be known, and the folly of choosing coffee after a night of caffeine-induced insomnia.
The last one is probably the hardest one to answer.
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