September 27, 2022:
There was a movie in my head.
Connection, communication, respect.
We'd learn to know each other.
She'd learn to know me.
Was there a movie in her head?
Dozens, likely.
None including me.
Unless it was to be rude and dismissive and chronically hurtful,
in ways she'd never be toward strangers.
It was a mistake,
albeit well-intentioned.
There'd been no way to have known that without the experience itself.