June 29, 2017:
Naive and optimistic as always, it was two years before I realized she was just plain stupid.
I thought it was language, I thought it was culture or exile or stress.
When it hit me it was the proverbial thunderclap. Oh bloody hell.
Of course she resented me for it. I quit trying, recognizing that the majority of our communication failures came down to the reality that she just wasn't going to follow along, and that was that.
She went back to her husband. I thought, That's the most dimwitted thing anyone's ever done.
But then, it would be.