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Long, light brown hair, some of it dyed or aged with blond and gray but worn in billowing, loose curlicues; a very young style.

She wears a satiny dress, clingy. Her back is to Andre but he knows her. She has an attractive face. Thirty-five or Forty.

He suspects that she is distraught and moves near. Yes she is. She has been drinking and above her perfume is the slight, sour odor of perspiration. She has been physically active.

Releasing her grief without tears she admits to recent sexual unfaithfulness to her husband. She requires Andre's comfort. He does so and is aroused. He navigates her toward his bedroom. Her weight is yet unsteady.

He is her age, perhaps a year older. Both have matured benignly in appearance. Yet, she seems to think that Andre is her son. She speaks of having intercourse with one, not 'Daddy'. She must unburden herself to Andre so as not to unburden herself to 'Daddy.'

Upstairs, on what could have been his childhood bed, he removes her dress and panties. An odor comes from her crotch. The unwashed evidences of recent fornication. Andre is not troubled by it, nor curious of the depositor, or 'Daddy' for that matter. Behind his ardor is some questions concerning the Oedipal controversy of these unusual circumstances --Yes, this woman was perhaps someone's mother but definitely not his!

He couples with her at the place where bodies become liquid. Yes, there is intense enjoyment. Her eyes close and her concern with 'Daddy' vanishes.

Later, she cries a little but is not hysterical. More related to drunkenness. Andre feels slightly unclean but not overtly guilty. He dresses, recommends that she do likewise.

Upon awakening from a nap it occurs to Andre that, at times he has trouble reconstructing the faces of loved-ones out of memory. This is the affliction of an alienated person! A loose pencil in the journal of life. Perhaps he should check into a clinic and request massive psychotherapy, But, no, oftentimes he prefers himself this way, it makes life's little nuances much more adventurous.

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