he invited me to stay over at his place

for the weekend. I thought about gift‘horses and widening your circle of possibilities the way I’d read in Being Single and Loving It. I tried to think constructively.lOK he was boring in the office but he might loosen up 1 given the chance--He might be Lord Byron between the sheets. NOt that I wantedto .

presume but he had invitedme to stay over. "

Maybe I just thought he was boring because I. I had a masochisticfix- on rotten men -or something. He was a perfectly nice guy and maybe it was me’that~ hadn’t seen a Way to appreciate that yet. Godknows. Condoms in

the overnight bag anyway. Six. Just in case.

foreign p a r t s janice galloway

reproduced by kind permission ofjonathan cape

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