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Show CHRYSALIS pAQE 1?0 "Paul was a son-of-a-bitch," she says bluntly. "I really didn't know he was -" "Gay? Bisexual? I did. I told you so." She shrugs. "You should*ve told me sooner." "You wouldn't have listened if I had." She orders another daiquiri. "I used to wonder if people thought w£ were." "Paul thought so." "Did you tell him we weren't?" "Even I had begun to wonder if I was - all right. Maybe I tried to prove I was okay. How is David?" I ask to change the subject. "Bald. But I still love him. You're lucky to have Mark." "I know." "Jody," she says, "about the baby - is it all right?" "Yes. You said I ought to get rid of it." "Did I? I really don't know what you ought to do, or what I said about the baby." She pours herself another drink. "It's too late now, anyway." We talk a little of death and dying, and Jenny's new-found enthusiasm for reincarnation. "Two weeks ago I was content, or reasonably so, with the idea that I would never know. Now I finally think I understand. And, good God, without that bolt of lightening I was always |