Chapter 2: Day 2, My Heart Lies with You, Forever
June 3. Barbara Mullen finds me at the bungalow in my white boxer-briefs and nothing more. I prepare breakfast at the brushed aluminum range: eggs Benedict, a cup of mixed fruit, and a Bloody Mary. It’s nine o’clock in the morning and I see her glide up the back steps, across the ceramic-tiled verandah and through the open sliding glass doors. I haven’t seen her since her twenty-ninth birthday in April when she visited New York City, and her then-lover, Dax Brenton, whom she dumped after three months of what she called a “sucking and f*****g” period.
Barbara always establishes bad romances. Never does she stay with a man more than ninety days, calling them irritable, boring, beneath her, or useless. She believes I am her soul mate, even i
