@Remittancegirl The problem with this little twee paean is that it's a lie delivered through a dreamlike blur to disguise that.

Like right off the top of my head: "You didn’t even need a passport to enter the United States until I was 33."

I didn't like Marche when I met him and this kind of crap is why. You didn't need a passport ... if you were white. Non-white people always had a very different experience at the US border. Even before he was 33.

@Valent See, to me it was wistful writing of someone who's never really faced staring down the barrel of America's dark side. You know: white and male.

He has this wistful memory of an America that only he and people like him could experience. The rest of us have faced the need for supplemental ID—not technically a passport, sure—when crossing the border, just to go with that first wistful memory.

Then we enter his little fetishistic bit with homelessness and the child with the keyring...