Chapter 5
For the life of Nathan, he could not figure out the feminine tradition of dragging along some sorry man on a shopping expedition. It had to be proof that women were all sadists and believed men should be punished for having p*****s. Getting even for that whole Garden incident with the snake.
The dressing room door opened, and Lydia, Laura’s oldest sister, stepped out into the spacious corridor, where Nathan sat on a leather sofa next to Barb, his future mother-in-law.
“I don’t think I like the color,” Lydia said, tiptoeing to stand in front of the trifold mirror. She smoothed the front of the green dress with dark brown stripes. Lydia and Leslie both took after their mother, who, for reasons that spoke to a neurosis Nathan couldn’t identify, had decided to give all her girls n
