1. When I was little, my mother used to tell me that a woman becomes invisible to men at a certain age. Perhaps that's why she let him commit the acts that he did. She would become visible only then, once she'd served a purpose in his agenda, and she knew the secret would forever bind him to her.
2. I gaze at his unshaven face; it's manly. He's handsome in an old-fashioned kind of way, straight out of a 1950s movie
3. Last night, I felt a depth of sadness that I haven't felt or allowed myself to feel in a while. I mourned for Mia, the loss of our friendship, and mostly for the loss of my history, the lost memory of who I once was.
4. When I was little, my mother used to tell me that a woman becomes invisible to men at a certain age. Perhaps that's why she let him commit the acts that he did. She would become visible only then, once she'd served a purpose in his agenda, and she knew the secret would forever bind him to her.