This is Gigi Roth as I met her the other day at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She was making notes on her favorite painter: Cornelius Krieghoff. We went for coffee and I started telling her what a crappy painter Krieghoff actually is; Gigi was very upset and defensive. Turns out she is a believior ... there is nothing anyone can say or do to convince her otherwise than what she believes (like the Smofpses of Atlanta, who believe that inside our earth is another earth with a diameter eighteen times larger than the external one or like those who believe that Ștrumpf won the 2020 election). Gigi is delightful and nice but just a tad gullible: about four years ago, at a party, she met this guy Michael and when she told him that her mother left her $15,000, he said "Put it all in Bitcoin!" and she did. A few months ago, when she looked it up, she had more that nine hundred grand. Gigi immediately cashed in and bought that mountain bike she always wanted, then, went to the Toronto Humane Society and rescued a dog (William) and a cat (Oscar) both chipped and neutered.
