I did read it. You make a good point that they would have had to travel back to Aspen to attend - I have no idea where they were from originally and if attending meant a short drive or a flight across country.

Thanks; I was not trying to be snarky, Thanks for not taking it that way. :-) And yea; I've no clue where they were from either but I got the impression it was a flight away, so pretty far...but not sure.

I also get what you're saying here but I can also see Hopkins as being used as bait, just so the gallery owner and other local weirdos could get this woman to come back.

Huh, yeah, that's a darn good idea too...he absolutely could have been lying about it & just dropping his name as bait!

Logically though, if they told the owner that they were only in town for a couple of days and wouldn't be able to travel back, it does seem weird that he would keep pestering them. Was there something special about her and her husband (besides her being pregnant, I mean)? Surely there were tons of pregnant ladies in and around that area that he could have harassed.

Yep, that's the big red flag...why is he so antsy to get those specific people back to his gallery for this "party"? Very weird.... Maybe she was just super hot and/or he had a preggo porn fetish? 🤷‍♂️😂😯😁

I get that feeling. I talk about these things online because I don't want to mess with the people I know in real life. It's enough talking to them about things like covid/vaxxes or how the government isn't quite what it seems. I don't have to start bringing this horror to them as well.

I hear ya, but you have to talk (when appropriate of course) to people in real life as well.... now more than ever, we have to open our mouths, spread the word & news, inform & inspire our fellow man.....

Here are some of my favorite quotes along these lines:

“It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” ― Samuel Adams

“In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

“You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.” - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I'd argue that by staying silent, that's not too different at all from speaking lies; even if you are merely parroting them to go along with the crowd / go with the flow.....