I had a tear-inducing fangirl moment earlier this week when I opened my Substack app in a moment of boredom and discovered the illustrious Marita van der Vyver had restacked my recent essay on grief.
I'm going to restack this one too because it flatters me all the way! Just waiting for you to correct the spelling of my surname (there's no f in Vyver) but don't feel bad because everyone spells it with that silly f.
I am mortified to my core for that error for two reasons. One of my dear friends is a van der Vyver and I am certain I have his name in my phonebook with an f, when by rights it should be a v. My second source of embarrassment is that I headed to your publication to verify if van der was lower case and didn't acknowledge the V/F. I am sorry, and a lesson learnt. Change has been made.
I'm going to restack this one too because it flatters me all the way! Just waiting for you to correct the spelling of my surname (there's no f in Vyver) but don't feel bad because everyone spells it with that silly f.
I am mortified to my core for that error for two reasons. One of my dear friends is a van der Vyver and I am certain I have his name in my phonebook with an f, when by rights it should be a v. My second source of embarrassment is that I headed to your publication to verify if van der was lower case and didn't acknowledge the V/F. I am sorry, and a lesson learnt. Change has been made.