21 Gretchen has taken her role as Jaina Jacen very seriously. I don’t want her to get in trouble at the paper, though selfishly, I love seeing what she’s doing with the books. When I express my concern for what Mr. Clark will think of her frequent absences, she says everyone in the office believes she’s shadowing some hot new designer freshly transplanted from Milan. The truth? She’s getting situated with a new publicist about a campaign to boost sales of the second book and then plan a grand launch for the third—the one I have yet to write. As it’s a weekday, I should be at the food truck—alas, Leia is filling my shift as my feet presently are in stirrups while the nurse practitioner does her best to warm the speculum that’s about to greet my … yeah. That. I haven’t had a Pap in four ye

