CHAPTER 36
I didn’t understand the importance and the extent of that event until the day I had to face its preparation. For Peter it had been simpler. For men it was always simpler and if there were rare occasions when I envied them there were just these.
Choice of clothes, accessories, makeup, in short, everything that generally excited girls was for me an exhausting ordeal. When shopping with friends I had always ended up defeated and in a bad mood. On that occasion I completely lost my cool.
Hair, that a hairdresser had come, specially to style me, or rather, tame me. After all, I was Peter Wiles of Darkest Storm’s chaperone. I never realized I had hair until that moment. After two hours of torment it came out a thirties hairstyle that I was sure would inexorably collapse by the begi
