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Show CHRYSALIS PAGE 169 bathroom?" She stirs her daiquiri with her finger. "I was a real klutz, wasn't I? For six hours I wrote poems all over the toilet paper, until you finally came home and rescued me." "Jody, I've saved it. All these years." Her eyes get misty- "Saved what?" "The t o i l e t paper with the poetry on i t . Someday you'11 be famous, and I ' l l have an o r i g i n a l ." "Super. An Original Klutz!" "Yes." She giggles through the mist. "Hey," she says, her eyes widening suddenly. "Did you see Paul the other night on TV? A small part on Mannix - a rerun." "No, I didn't." "Beautiful Paul. He was very good." "Really." "You know," she says, "I envied you." "Why?" "When you married Mark, you at least knew what it was like to be with another man." "You didn't. . .when you married David?" "Hell, no. I did it the hard way ~ after," she says. I dawdle over my 7-Up, playing with the ice. "Paul was - an opportunist. I don't think about that anymore." |