Phoning Home for a Reality Check

I read, with utter disbelief, about Mary Ann Hogan’s “despair” over the loss of her Area Code. (“First Person, Sept. 2). Can Hogan be so unaware of the real and traumatic losses suffered by people every day--not only in the Bay Area, but all over this country and this planet?

I will spare you and your readers my opinion of someone who develops a profound emotional attachment to a phone number. But I must point out that beneath her sentimental claptrap, there is an underlying meanness: She wants all the people who have come into her area during the past three generations--whether by birth, job transfer, migration or immigration--”to go home.” Can she be so far gone as not to realize that they are home?

NORMAN BORISOFF

Santa Monica