I just this and one other- but it's the ned bit "if you know where Verna is today" that just kills me. She was on Facebook? Anyway, now I want to find Verna. I love this diary on yelp- it's such a reaching out! Funny and real. heartbreaking.
No, not on Facebook. I have done quite a bit of searching, although I haven’t gone back to Texas or spent $$$.. I found Verna’s writing because I was in Austin, checking Yelp for a restaurant idea, as one does.
And BOOM, I saw this review of Verna’s, which was liked by a jillion people.
I burst out laughing, then got quiet in amazement, as I realized the “review” was more like a diary entry. I clicked on her name and “that’s all she wrote” — I read every single thing she published on Yelp. Couldn’t find her anywhere else. She disappeared. Of course I wonder if she is alive, if she became far more private, what happened. I would like to find out. I hope as her story gets more considered discussion, we might learn. She had family. She was educated. She met people constantly. She was working, but the pandemic might have kicked her butt, like it did to so many.
On one of her entries you posted, she says something about being on facebook. Someone from her past finding her that way or something. I want t find her too!
I just this and one other- but it's the ned bit "if you know where Verna is today" that just kills me. She was on Facebook? Anyway, now I want to find Verna. I love this diary on yelp- it's such a reaching out! Funny and real. heartbreaking.
No, not on Facebook. I have done quite a bit of searching, although I haven’t gone back to Texas or spent $$$.. I found Verna’s writing because I was in Austin, checking Yelp for a restaurant idea, as one does.
And BOOM, I saw this review of Verna’s, which was liked by a jillion people.
I burst out laughing, then got quiet in amazement, as I realized the “review” was more like a diary entry. I clicked on her name and “that’s all she wrote” — I read every single thing she published on Yelp. Couldn’t find her anywhere else. She disappeared. Of course I wonder if she is alive, if she became far more private, what happened. I would like to find out. I hope as her story gets more considered discussion, we might learn. She had family. She was educated. She met people constantly. She was working, but the pandemic might have kicked her butt, like it did to so many.
On one of her entries you posted, she says something about being on facebook. Someone from her past finding her that way or something. I want t find her too!
I would love it if one of our readers here could find her or find out what happened.
Just brilliant writing.