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Mike calls to ask, "Will you go with me to the Bambi motel?"
And I said, "Yes, I have wanted to have an affair with you for four long years."
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I had rounded a corner and there he was. No one else about. Seven a.m. I had chosen to run through streets I never frequent. I was out of my neighborhood, out of my milieu. I was speechless. He had dropped me and I never knew why. I had tried to contact him but he never responded.

























Christy Sheffield Sanford, Copyright © 1996.