Oh What A Difference A Year Makes

Annmarie Throckmorton, M.A.
Aug 16
1 min read

I often take notes throughout the day by emailing them to myself, and I just ran across this one:

Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2024 8:20:17 AM

To: Annmarie Throckmorton <xyz@x.com>

Subject: Fwd: I have had a cold in my lungs for a few days and today I woke up coughing, my neighbor who lives above me immediately coughed back at me. I am sorry that I woke her, but I am sick.

Now, a full year later, I can cough with confidence in the privacy of my own home because my neighbor who lives above me no longer responds. She either got tired of never getting a response from old, unwell me or she got too old to care about the little noises of life that I make.

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