Dora Says I Feel Like A Character In The Wrong Novel
Dear Readers,
I feel like a character marooned in the wrong novel. Has the author forgotten who we are? We are supposed to be players in the drama of the Great War. I am the daughter of a tire tycoon who lives in Pittsburgh. My fiance, Edward Ware, is the son of an English baronet who also runs an auto company, Adolphus Motors. We are supposed to be engaged while he is fighting in the Syrian Desert with Lawrence of Arabia and his Bedouin army. I am supposed to read letter after letter from the front. Then I am supposed to sail to England and to France looking for him.
We are not characters in a western novel. We didn't travel west to participate in the Silver Rush to Tombstone, Arizona in the 1880's. We are not saloon girls, saloon keepers, gunslingers, cowboys, sheriffs, ranch hands, lawmen, or anyone else who would fit into that milieu.We sail on ships like the Lusitania. We don't ride on stagecoaches.
Sincerely yours,
Dora Benley
P.S. You won't find a western mentioned in volume one of my memoirs, King Abdullah's Tomb.
I feel like a character marooned in the wrong novel. Has the author forgotten who we are? We are supposed to be players in the drama of the Great War. I am the daughter of a tire tycoon who lives in Pittsburgh. My fiance, Edward Ware, is the son of an English baronet who also runs an auto company, Adolphus Motors. We are supposed to be engaged while he is fighting in the Syrian Desert with Lawrence of Arabia and his Bedouin army. I am supposed to read letter after letter from the front. Then I am supposed to sail to England and to France looking for him.
We are not characters in a western novel. We didn't travel west to participate in the Silver Rush to Tombstone, Arizona in the 1880's. We are not saloon girls, saloon keepers, gunslingers, cowboys, sheriffs, ranch hands, lawmen, or anyone else who would fit into that milieu.We sail on ships like the Lusitania. We don't ride on stagecoaches.
Sincerely yours,
Dora Benley
P.S. You won't find a western mentioned in volume one of my memoirs, King Abdullah's Tomb.
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