I wrote Anna a love letter, in which I explained something I have been thinking lately.

For a long while I was thinking that Maggie is sadder than everyone else...

"That is the Maggie is sadder than everybody model.

For a bit lately I have dipped into the Everybody who loves Maggie is sadder than Maggie because of Maggie model.

Now the model I am trying is this:  Maggie is emotional to degree w.  Anna is emotional to degree x.  Mom is emotional to degree y.  Daddy is emotional to degree z.  x is equivalent to y is equivalent to z."

I also have another theory. I used to live with three women, Dylan, Tessa, and Lauren. Looking back, we each compared ourselves to our bunkmates.

We used the following model. Lauren is a better leader than Maggie. Lauren is greater than Maggie.

Maggie is a better writer than x person. Maggie is greater than x person. Dylan is more perverted (in a good way) than Maggie. Dylan is greater than Maggie. Tessa is sweeter than everyone else. Tessa is greater than all bunkmates.

I think about these folks because I pulled out my Mountain journal PDF yesterday and took to reading.

My new philosophy is this: Maggie is very Maggie. Maggie is the most Maggie of everyone I know... except for Maggie Barry, and any other spare Maggie I might know. But this Maggie Ellen Robin Hess, the only, is more Maggie Ellen Robin Hess than all other people.

In this model, Dylan is more Dylan than Maggie. Lauren is more Lauren than Maggie. Tessa is more Tessa than Maggie. Yet because I know these three strong women, I am more Dylan/Tessa/Lauren, than Joe Six Pack. But that is rediculously given anyway.