Tonight's picture was taken in September of 2008. Mattie was about one month into treatment. That day, we were invited back to Mattie's preschool playground to meet up with Mattie's friend Alex, his teachers, and the director of the school. They all wanted to support us and I will never forget this day! It is hard to believe that Mattie's preschool NO LONGER exists. It was bulldozed and turned into an apartment complex. It truly is a loss to our entire community and whenever I pass the location, all I can think about was the amazing memories and friends made in this incredible space.
Quote of the day: We bereaved are not alone. We belong to the largest company in all the world — the company of those who have known suffering. ~ Helen Keller
My days are chaotic. The one thing I look forward to at the end of the day is watching TV. We have been watching all sorts of series but the latest one we completed was Inventing Anna on Netflix. I found it and was intrigued immediately by its description because it is based on a true story. The sad part about this is there are only 9 episodes to the series and Netflix hasn't renewed/continued it. Anna is a fascinating person and I naturally gravitated to the story because I have always been interested in the psychology of people. What motivates them, what makes them tick, how they treat others, and their priorities, thoughts and feelings. Though the series doesn't focus on Anna's mental health diagnosis, I am quite certain she has a personality disorder.
Anna Sorokin, also known as Anna Delvey, is a con artist and fraudster who posed as a wealthy German heiress to access the upper echelons of the New York social and art scenes from 2013 to 2017. Born to working-class parents in the Soviet Union, Sorokin emigrated from Russia to Germany with her family in 2007.
There are aspects of the series that I hate, like the cursing, but Julia Garner, who portrays Anna does an outstanding job. She sucks you in and makes you want to truly understand Anna and the people who succumbed to her cons. In the end however, everyone Anna hurt lands up becoming famous and thanks to stories and books have become wealthy themselves. The series makes you truly evaluate whether people do things in life without some sort of benefit to them.
I honestly think this is a worthwhile series to watch and if you aren't sure, check out the trailer:
The reporter, Jessica Pressler, who investigated Anna wrote an article for the New Yorker and from her work, the Netflix series was created.
"Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks."
Anna's friend, Rachel, wrote an article in Vanity Fair. Rachel was one of the people conned by Anna. In the end she wrote a book and sold rights to her story and made a significant amount of money. Profiting from the actions of her friend. The series makes you wonder about whose behavior was actual worse... Anna's or Rachel's?
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/my-misadventure-with-the-magician-of-manhattan
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