Chapter 16 The Skill Crane Item 1

SUSAN SAYS IF BABIES aren't touched enough, they die. She hugs everybody at the bar and the softball games and the Lambda meetings. Not me, boy. I don't need it. I'm no baby, Haven't been for thirty-six years, anyway. I don’t need any of that stuff. When Susan left me after six years, I cried some, but that was all. I missed her around the house, missed her cooking, mainly. And she used to come in from work with the silliest damn jokes. I missed that. Still do, I guess. But we were never that great in bed, anyway not since about the first couple of years, so I'd already found out that I didn’t need sex.