Lorax's husband told her to get dressed up and pick out the place she wanted to go to, when he had not done so in months, and she spent her fifty-six-year-old day preparing her face, creaming her body, hooking a bra, and doing that thing that women do, touching a part of ourselves we imagine being touched later by a man. In the car on the way to the favorite restaurant, the Tom Waits song "Shiver Me Timbers" came on.
"I'm leavin' my family / I'm leavin' all my friends / My body's at home / But my heart's in the wind."
-Esquire
