That's the beauty of the internet, everyone can be an analyst........
She is a victim of the times.
Well off by dint of her positions (Cosmopolitan and other venues) she traded her ability for position and recompense. She had both in her high-rise apartment in the sky. Unfortunately, the order of the day is economy over empirical integrity.
Modern building technology utilizes cheaper and poorer materials more and more to ever greater standards until less and less is required of more and the pyramid or technological failure comes into play. At the apex of performance the zenith of failure is certain to occur.
She might have done better to reconsider the ephemeral nature of life and the eternal nature of her soul. Now, a cheap date and a drink on the edge of eternity have cost her the very soul she sought to satisfy.
Just my $0.02.
I don’t know, I read that story and I just didn’t read that much into it.
May the unfortunate woman RIP, and may her dinner companion recover from such a truly awful experience.
If I had been that date, I would of said "Famous last words."
"Aaah, oops!"
Smoking? So XIXth century!
May she happened by some "inconvenient truths" - and maybe she didn't have a car to rig
Smoking kills
She worked for the New Yorker and Cosmopolitan???
Well then, OF COURSE she deserved to fall off a 17th story balcony.
Let me guess, they built the Building when Bush was President, right?
Is there such a thing as “Big Railing”, and did they meet privately with Darth Cheney at the White House?
PING