December 15
The abused women at work notice the difference in me. Patty guesses I have a date and the ladies swarm around after their ‘Men and Violence’ support group. Blind Suzy starts to sing a Tina Turner song and they all want details. These women know men and can sniff out romance. They’ve all had oodles of relationships. Most of them violent and horrible, but still relationships. I have not. I open up a little and tell them I want to make a cheesecake, but am freaked out so I’m buying one.
They coo and paw at me, and start shouting out advice, and Blind Suzy sings ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ until one of the caseworkers emerges from spritzing her plants in her office and shoos the group away from my desk.
I pickup an Entenmann’s Deluxe French Style cheesecake and some Perrie
