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But if parts of his trip could be unsettling, then there was considerable wonder and beauty too, particularly from blending in with the natives on Bertha’s Beach in the Falkland Islands.

Bertha Servin, 58, works at Mission Linen Supply in Chino, an industrial laundry where workers sanitize and iron linens, uniforms and bedding for nearby hospitals.

What keeps Bertha interesting to you?

There she was in Thailand for weeks, shooting Season 3 of HBO’s “The White Lotus,” wearing sleeved bathing suits — because mere days after she’d be back in the U.S. she’d be in a corseted costume to play society wannabe Bertha on HBO’s “The Gilded Age” … and no way was Bertha going to show up bronzed.

In real life, as Brownstein relates, she was Bertha Pappenheim, a young Viennese woman who did indeed suffer from a range of mysterious symptoms.