The shoes were going to come between them. She saw this and she steeled herself for it. Not in those, he said. But she didn’t take them off.

The self-help guru was big into giving hugs. This silly idea was the basis of his empire. I didn’t feel it though. I kneed him in the gonads.

The first time she said “Let’s go,” he misheard and he let go of her hand. The second time she said “Let’s go”, she said it to someone else.