25 September 2022

Story in Seven Letters

 

She will have the name of her ex-boyfriend tattooed above her privates. When she married the man, he became a husband, the husband displacing the boyfriend. Before then the boyfriend had done the same in kind. “A guy I’m dating” was left behind when the boyfriend arrived. She was in love, and a sign of her deep commitment was the name she had etched in ink above her pubis’ hairline. The foolish things people will do to eke permanency from a passing fad. The husband in turn eventually an ex-husband, the ex-husband then as well containing an ex-boyfriend, “guy I’m dating”, et cetera. The first man she slept with beyond that chain of relation asked after he’d gone down on her, “Who’s Rodrigo?” “Up until two minutes ago,” she told him, “you were.” After which she kissed and held him.

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