I know I am days late, but I wanted to say thank you for saying this. I had such conflict with this essay and some of it I could not articulate, until I read

Waaahahahahaaaaaaaaaa! I looked up the Mutter museum, I have tears of laughter and fright in my eyes!

This entire thread is just XTRA. i am laughing so hard!!!!!

I know I’m in the greys, but mothballs and earring backs made my mind stutter, then set off a belly laugh so huge that my dogs started pawing at me!

OK I am responding from June 2020 because your comment freaked me out. We are sitting right in the middle of foretold PANDEMIC.