My Body is a Cage and Other Stories

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made me laugh because I was very tipsy and she was very beautiful. Luckily, she was also tipsy
enough to lead me outside where all the smokers were,and around to the side of the bar hidden
in shadow. That is apparently where lovers kiss. Shetold me so and then kissed me. It felt
different than kissing my husband. He only kissedme when we fucked and he always fucked me
like he was looking for something inside me that henever quite could find. She was patient. Her
skin was soft. She let me breathe in between. I wasthe one that lifted my leg up against her side
and she caught it, hand on my thigh, my thigh slippingout from underneath her dress that I was
wearing. She had my breath and my body and what Iput on my body, and I didn’t realize it until
she stopped and asked if this was okay, and I saidyes, and she asked if I wanted to go back
home, and I said yes.
Dolly. I don’t know if you’ve ever had sex with awoman, but I hope for your sake that
you get that privilege sometime in your life. Sexwith a woman is good. Sex with a woman in an
old farmhouse underneath a quilt with a huge embroideredrooster on it? Indescribable.
The thing is that women know how women like to betouched. There is none of the
grasping, shoving, digging sensations of a man tryingto bring you to orgasm and failing
spectacularly. It’s a mutual coaxing that turns yourbody into 4th of July sparkler.
I woke alone in the morning and checked my phone,to see a text from her saying “Good
morning. Pancakes on the counter. I had to go shearthe sheep” and then an emoji of a sheep. I
didn’t even know she had sheep, but I was delightedat the prospect of meeting them.
I’m not ashamed to say that when I went back to thehouse I shared with my husband, I
was gloating. He could tell there was a shift in mymood, but seemed afraid to push it. I had told
him I spent the weekend with my parents, that I neededspace. He was so eager to please now
that he’d seen I had the guts to leave him if I wantedto. And I did want to, but not quite yet. For

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