We are asked to feel sorry for poor little Ima Stone, one of the persons listed on the roster of ridiculous names which was distributed by someone. I don't remember where that came from. It was just there, not seeming like a real person, just an abstraction unrelated to the real person bearing a lifelong joke, when you put it that way. I cannot imagine what the life of the real Ima Stone might have been like but she was not alone. There were quite a few other names on the list as well, not that I would know anything about that.
