…she’d never believed in the Wilby that existed in her mother’s memory, the Wilby where Mary MacKenzie had set a record for knitting the world’s longest scarf…and little Walter MacDonald had climbed the water tower to rescue a stranded pelican.

I’m sorry, my moral and ethical judgement is not a rubber stamp I mindlessly smack down on every situation that arises without considering the particulars. || OP also brilliant, but marina’s explanation for alleged hypocrisy is Quote of the fuckin’ Week.