Longed for him. Got him. Shit.

“Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear…”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cut…”

“Just what the doctor ordered, he says. A bottle of lemonade, a hard-boiled egg,…”

“a few brown leaves are stuck to the outside of the glass like leather tongues.”