As usual, it took me some time to finish as I was looking up unknown words, some of them are quite delicious. For example, the word "rigmarole". In some cases, it could be an elegant replacement for annoying "etcetera."

Every time I am surprised about your fluency and ease with which you describe a scene and abundance of appropriate details. It seems that you don't even work hard on choosing the words, but they flow naturally.

Are you pulling all this out of your memory? What I mean is how much of it is an account of real-life and how much of it is imagined?