June 1, 2023:

I shared my interest in George Grosz. Possible point of contact with a possible new friend.

Through the magic of Google she gravitated straight to his erotic drawings, which are not interesting to me and which I hadn't known existed.

Articulate very specifically and carefully your goals and purposes. People somehow interpret that as camouflage for something else. As though your directness is oblique, where your true meaning fulfills whatever wish they have going at the time.