November 27, 2023:

At the bank she walked right through a plate glass window. Two weeks hospitalized, lacerations head to toe.

Recovery was years. Constant pain. Exhaustion of Western medicine: There's nothing more we can do for you.

To her own endless shock, acupuncture relieved the suffering. That voodoo from the mysterious East.

I thought of it as: When science fails, turn to different science. She thought of it as: Utterly incomprehensible. Not even magic. Magic might have made sense. This was simply and purely baffling.

Hillbilly life in the Big ol' City.