I just typed "letter" into YouTube. That is how I found this song. I had never heard it before ever. That is all.

I am sort of baffled by the question of where to go with this now that I've blogged about all three of the short stories, but I keep coming back to how the first two short stories, "How I Met My Husband" and "Interpreter of Maladies" included the element of waiting for a letter that's never sent.

Is there always just that one letter that somebody expects but never gets? Is that universal? I myself am a compulsive letter writer. Consequently, I can think of multiple occasions on which I have waited on one of those stupid letters from seemingly obscure people, but I didn't realize other people worried about such things. I thought I was just exceedingly neurotic.

But it sounds like Edie waited for that letter from Chris for an awfully long time. I don't think we get a specific time period, but my guess is at least a few months. That's a rather long time to be in denial about such things.