“You mustn’t think I don’t understand, man,” he was telling me when my thoughts focused enough again to understand what he was saying. “It seems unbelievable to you. We’re in the new millennium for f**k’s sakes. These things don’t happen.”
He shook his head.
“Unbelievable or not it’s your life from now on and you better start coming to terms with it quick or it’s going to be an even more miserable experience for you than it need be.”
Looking back I see he was trying to give me sound advice –incredible as the subject it referred to was; but then I could hardly be blamed for not seeing a way to adjust to the fact I had become my faithless wife’s property and chattel.
“I know the history, bro,” continued Oscar, reading my thoughts, “and I know how tough you gonna find being reduced to a f
