Darlene
Darlene looked across the table at Joanie. She wanted to laugh and shake her head but didn’t want to insult Joan with something she’d probably wouldn’t understand. For such a brilliant and knowledgeable woman, there were so many lapses in her personal day-to-day education, it was almost incomprehensible. Darlene guessed Joan’s mind was so involved with remembering all that actually had happened in the past and imagining all her extraterrestrial occurrences that would probably never happen in the future, that she never had time to notice interactions between other real people. She focused on things that helped her survive, but interactions with other people just had to come as they may.
Darlene was surprised when Joan said she had a shrink. Of course she would have been sent to a
