YES. BECAUSE THAT'S HOW I ROLL. LIKE A SUAVE THING. In fact, from here on, please forward my mail to 1 Suave Hill, Suave Boulevard, Suavieland, Planet of She's-So-Smooth-I-Can't-Believe-She's-Not-Butter.
Michele Jaffetalking to yourself again, jas? yes, it beats talking to you. oh, time machine back to first grade much? only to visit your brain.
Michele JaffeFor some reason my father saw no problem with us pplaying "barbie and ken go to hawaii to save their marriage by picking up another couple for sexy good times," but if barbie and ken had gone to hawaii to "rescue another couple from a crazed kidnapper," that would have been wrong.
Michele JaffeAnd we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.
Michele JaffeThinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through when youยดd utterly and completely mortified yourself. Or when you had spontaneous zit eruptions. โGood book?โ he asked, taking it from her and reading the subtitle, โA Guide for Good Girls Who (Sometimes) Want to Be Bad,โ out loud. But life did not come with a trapdoor.
Michele Jaffe