Overlong Memories

Overlong Memories

I AM NOT (provably) A VAMPIRE!

There are no portraits of me from 1789 and it is perfectly normal to want to destroy the Sun. Centuries of accusations - still 0 proof that I'm a vampire.

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Virginia Karnstein
Feb 09, 2026
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Dear Miss Van Helsing, frenemy without equal,

Since at least the 1660s, maybe the 1650s, people like you have been trying to prove that I’m a vampire. However, as shall become clear, there is no reason to think I was even alive for the incident in 1663 that you just wrote to me about, so the accusations have clearly all been spurious. Further, nobody has…

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