The Personal Ad
They had met online after she had posted a personal ad on Craig’s List: Married woman looking for romance, it said, if he could paraphrase. It was a classy posting amid the no-strings-attached pleas for one night of animal sex, or the ads by women who said they were looking for a relationship, but, in fact, were just looking for a man to validate them with empty compliments designed for one purpose — to get them out of their clothes. They both knew what would happen: They would have sex, part...