A couple weeks ago, I

A couple weeks ago, I thought I saw this note drift from an old woman’s purse, but when I ran up to return it, she said it wasn’t hers. It seems obvious that it was the card that accompanied a bouquet of flowers, and that it perhaps fell out on the way to the recipient. Of course, the recipient could have dropped it, too, but it was sealed with tape and we realized later we were walking right past the flower shop where it originated.

J said the name sounded familiar and that he thought she was someone famous. We brought the card home and forgot to look her up for a couple weeks. Finally, yesterday, I thought to Google her name. And lo:

We found a note to Catwoman. She is apparently multi-talented and her career neither started nor ended with Batman. Further research says she was blacklisted for 10 years because she was very outspoken about the Vietnam War. She’s performing in New York this summer, which is how someone came to send her flowers, and a card that never made it. I was hoping John Morse would be a B-list Batman Villain like Colonel Gumm or something, but so far nothing’s come up.

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