Lipstick

"I remember how occasionally, back in the seventies, when Sarah wore lipstick around me, I was appalled. I didn't like it at all. I wasn't used to seeing her that way, so she looked nearly ugly to me."

"And she?" Bobbie Jean asked.

"She thought I was an ass to say so. She wasn't impressed that I'd be so blunt."

"And now?"

"I'm not impressed with it, either. I'm humiliated by it, thinking back on it. I don't like to think about it. Yet I still do sometimes. Isn't that weird?"

"Not very," Bobbie Jean shook her head. "You're like a dog with a bone, you never turn loose of anything."

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