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“She moves the candelabra in front of her husband.
She says, I like aggressive men.
I say, I like aggressive women.
She dips her spoon into the mushroom soup.
But this is delicious, she says.
Vermouth, I say. On the way back from the liquor store a plastic bag of fierce yellow slapped against my shin. I peeled it away, meat juice coursing in the wrinkles like a living beast. It clung just as viciously to a telephone pole when I let it go. There was a poster on the pole just a...bove the bag, Jessica Connolly at Fat Cat’s. A band of men behind her. She looked resolute and charged, just like twenty years ago when the three of us would crush ourselves into a change room in the mall, forcing our bodies into the smallest-sized jeans we could find — she and Louise and I, twisting on the balls of our feet to see how our bums looked.
I like aggressive women too, she says.MoreLess
She says, I like aggressive men.
I say, I like aggressive women.
She dips her spoon into the mushroom soup.
But this is delicious, she says.
Vermouth, I say. On the way back from the liquor store a plastic bag of fierce yellow slapped against my shin. I peeled it away, meat juice coursing in the wrinkles like a living beast. It clung just as viciously to a telephone pole when I let it go. There was a poster on the pole just a...bove the bag, Jessica Connolly at Fat Cat’s. A band of men behind her. She looked resolute and charged, just like twenty years ago when the three of us would crush ourselves into a change room in the mall, forcing our bodies into the smallest-sized jeans we could find — she and Louise and I, twisting on the balls of our feet to see how our bums looked.
I like aggressive women too, she says.MoreLess
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