Well, it has been a quiet year in Lake Wobegon except for the heat wave in February and then that weird epidemic of what’s called “episodic loss of inhibition” and sensible Germans and Norwegians pouring out inappropriate feelings, spilling crazy secrets, hallucinating about some conspiracy or other, acting out-Darlene baring her breasts at the Chatterbox Cafe-Dorothy stopped her in time, but still-our beloved Darlene, the last of the old-time waitresses who called their clients “Sweetheart,” at 55 opening her blouse!-and Pastor Liz making a fool of herself in a Sunday sermon.
