Brother O.P.

"I bet this will end up on your blog tomorrow." --Bro. O.P.

Alas, I didn't make it by tomorrow, but I didn't take so long, either.

I hadn't realized that Brother O.P. is such an avid reader of the Three White Leopards (he claims that this is mostly to be sure that I don't steal from any more emails he sends me without him noticing it, but I know better: it's the brilliant wittiness that is Emily Hale [which would clearly be brilliant-er and wittier if he emailed me with greater frequency]).

I'm not going to lie, though: the fact that I've told all of the stories on my blog that I tell in person deflated much of the energy of my in-person stories. Ah well, there are always trade-offs.