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RE: Close Encounters in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
What an incredible journey! Your courage and adventurous spirit are truly inspiring, especially embarking on your first solo international trip after seventy years. It's wonderful to hear you found kindred spirits and enriching experiences despite the unexpected challenges. Here's to many more adventures and questioning everything! I can totally relate to your experiences of airports, I do find being your best slave self is the way to get through the humiliation - at least you didn't have to remove your shoes. My husband is in a wheelchair and practically gets assaulted when we travel.
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Oh that's horrible! So much for the ADA legislation. Everything gets thrown out the window as long as it's for our safety. I am so disheartened that we so readily do it. I did not feel any safer either, i'm much more afraid of the obviously encroaching tyranny. I'd steeled myself up for refusing as much of it as we are allowed, but when the time came, I was also afraid of missing my flights because I might get held up by quasi law enforcement. It absurd. Next time I fly, I'll have to make sure I don't care if I miss a flight or connection. That might be the way to do it, don't plan on being on time anywhere. Thinking out loud here, thanks for listening.
Thank you for your lovely comment!
Here's a question for a fellow poet: did you read the italicized bold bit at a poem? I think it's a poem.
Absolutely it's a poem, I started to read your piece as a poem, but then it's prose mode took over. I'm glad you asked the question because it enabled me to take a closer look. I loved how your use of specific details, such as "papers were clutched" and "belongings were searched," grounded the scene in such a tangible reality, heightening the emotional impact. Excellent work that I believe a lot of us can relate to in our current dystopia.
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