correction

Recently I told the story of my father's disappeared hat, presumed stolen.

The hat has now returned.

Perhaps I should delete the earlier entry. Perhaps I shall.

Most salient for me, however, is that ordinary long-term residents of the city of

El Paso were willing to endorse the conclusion that the hat had been stolen,

and endorsed it without hesitation.

Indeed, one told his own tale about the theft of a wheel chair.....