Do y'all remember what I said last week about no longer being fully candid with my American friends inside the country and just trying to take care of their mental state a little bit, because they're so evidently strung out and stressed? People in early-middle age have intense family responsibilities in both directions, old & young, nascent health issues of their own, and the peak of their work careers to juggle all at once. They did not need a Handmaid's Tale revolution on top of it. 1/2