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“Shut your mouth,” Ginger said as she looked at Errol. He was looking at a
green parrot squawking in a tree.
“I didn’t even say anything,” he objected. She knew that he hadn’t said
anything; she meant that his mouth was hanging half open.
“You do that all the time,” she said. “You look silly. Sometimes I look
around to see if people are looking at you. They must think that I'm your
caregiver.”
He apologized, saying he’d try to keep his mouth closed when he was looking
at parrots. “Not just when you’re looking at parrots. Whenever you’re not using
your mouth for talking, you should keep your mouth closed. Look at me,” she
said. She demonstrated his “open mouth” position while looking at the parrot.
“See how dumb I look?” she said.
He laughed. “You look as smart and pretty with your mouth open as you do
with your mouth closed,” he said.
Since they’d already been dating for four years, he asked, why hadn’t she
said anything before now? She said that she hadn’t wanted to hurt his feelings
before. But now that she’d decided that they weren’t going to get married, and
maybe they weren’t even going to continue dating, she felt it was okay to be
completely honest with him.
He asked her if there were other things she had not told him.
“Your underarms smell,” she said, “even after you take a shower.” He told
her that the musky smell was actually attractive to some women. “Well, feel free
to share it with them,” she said.
He hoped she wasn’t serious about that, but he decided against asking
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发表于 2016-7-10 09:20:52