Chapter Fifty-Two
Mrs. Lipton’s quarterly payments are wired with exactness, my brimming bank account brimming more. Since I have not to any extent changed my lifestyle the outflow is limited. About the only excess expense, and it’s relatively insignificant, is following up on the myriad of responses to my Craig’s List postings, which unfortunately are more frequent than I’d like.
It seems Jack is difficult to replace. Many of the boys responding have been college students who have strong maternal ties and, in being away from home for the first time, need a surrogate mother. So I buy them dinner and we talk... though the exchange is probably more akin to an interrogation. If there are possibilities I entice them to my apartment and masturbate them. But there are preliminary intermediate
