I no longer get a newspaper, and I don't seek out the Ann Landers' type columns online; but when I used to skim them in the dead tree paper I found they just tended to make me feel better. See: other people have things worse or are so emotionally needy they make a movie length drama out of a stubbed toe, you and your life are just fine.
So I'm reading my favorite blog with loads of members and someone who had not posted in years is back and I'm totally getting that effect. On why he is now divorced. Oh I was more married to my fictional serial novels' character than my wife and she decided she wanted a divorce. (ok, from what he said wife was a keeping up with the Joneses type and liberal so it is somewhat understandable he didn't want to engage with "omg, Trump is such a crass boorish man yada yada") But two teen kids could have used a dad who was willing to engage in their real lives , but seems that was too boring compared to his fictional super spy character. Meh, who am I to judge, I didn't even do the marriage and kids thing, but I do feel like less of a loser for struggling with the clutter, time usage, and dollar budgets lately after reading that selfish twats views of what happened.
To be honest with myself I am prone to be judgmental just because I read his first novel and missed the clues of it veering from probable to just barely possible to total alternate history fiction and then I felt like a chump when I got to the last chapter or so where the alternate reality was spelled out.
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