People who only appear occasionally, who pop up once in a while to do a very specific thing before disappearing again, are a lovely phenomenon these days.
Patricia Marx, for example, going gonzo on some weird shopping expedition—I put time aside anytime she reappears. Marx writes about shopping in a way to make it…
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