I have a boyfriend. I haven’t had one of those since 1983, that’s 31 years ago. I’m a girl. I have trouble leaving it all alone and letting it happen. I want to fidget, meddle, touch, change, dissect, analyze, figure out, and understand. When he says he loves me, I think, “that’s generous of him to pretend that to make me feel better”. I think I’m supposed to just listen to his words and believe the standard meaning of that language.

What the hell? Why do I make new meanings for conventional words just because it’s being said by a man? A man my age no less. A man as fat as me. A man who just finished sharing his sex with me in the most incredible way. What is wrong with me to pick holes in that? Females. I’m just saying.