The Long Frost
This is a story of two attempts at sexual healing. One failed, but the other succeeded. And in the end, it was the healer who was healed. In 1975, my wife Gloria told me she wanted a divorce after two years of a childless marriage. An old high-school flame of hers had returned from a stint in the Army and come back to town the previous year. It didn’t take long before she told me that she’d fallen in love with him again, that she had begun an affair, and that she wanted to marry him. When...