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Fiction

fadedrose

(10,044 posts)

2. Happens to me with all nationalities, including American

Reply to Curmudgeoness (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 6, 2012, 01:01 AM

Oct 2012

I always hope the protagonist says something like, "it's nice to see you've given up parachute jumping, Gertrude" to refresh my memory about the forgotten character and then I realize that it's not the duck he had when he was a boy that I thought it was.

And I too do go back if the author is so inconsiderate as to not to give me a teeny clue as to who it is. But during the debates and after, when I went back to look, I would even forget what I was looking for.

Old age does nothing for self-confidence; ain't it a bitch trying to act old & wise?