@cstross for true horror, take a look at jmail.world (which took emails and formatted them as if the reader were Epstein.)

I think he outhorrors even your imagination.
(A search for "ranch" brings up more than 10K messages. I hope not all of them are *that* one.)

@skinnylatte
FWIW, a thing I read today about immigrant grief - by a local woman who moved across the pond - is staying with me.
Perhaps you will find comfort in its familiarity, too. https://stillhungrynews.substack.com/p/notes-from-a-foreign-country