Editor’s Note: On a personal level, I am sustained by hundreds of people who are, by my estimation, kinder and smarter than me. They often address me directly, but it's also the case that I carry, in my mind, the looks I imagine might appear on their faces were I to say aloud in their presence the thoughts I’m thinking. I then imagine what they might say were I to voice those thoughts. This is how these people function as imagined editors in my mind through no fault of their own.