26, 2009. xxx Then the other half of it hit me: I was going to have to have sex with this woman, and I really started to sweat! She came up to the door, and I let her in. The why isn’t hard to understand: bad experiences early in life made me wonder if I was just doomed to never be with a woman. His obituary listed the cause of death as complications of diabetes. I remembered how he, a usually taciturn sort of guy who rarely smiled and had a wit as dry as the Sahara, had suddenly started smiling at odd times. It was told to me by a dear friend, Sal, and at first, I didn’t believe him. His obituary listed the cause of death as complications of diabetes. Even though I




















