The Story of a Man With a Long Neck

The narrator receives a clipping from a newspaper showing her standing next to an old woman with carrots shaped like hands. In this story too, that he talks about spending time with her, this is the zoo story. But also in the first story, when the woman was remembering her son, she remembered that he like about drefts and elect similar questions - so yo, you're like, wait, wat's going right? What's the connection? Is there one?