Which Reminds Me

Yes, it was only after reading the diaries of great-grandmother, when she talks about visiting her daughter, my Dad's Aunt, somewhere in North Dakota, that I realized something about that, because before that it had seemed utterly ridiculous to me that these Dakota people had appeared here in Florida to learn more about us and size up the competition. They are not my friends, obviously, but at that time I had no thought of the Dakotas. I cannot imagine where they got all of these exalted expectations. What if I cannot meet their expectations? And why should I even try? Who cares?