Chapter 1350

• THROWING SUGAR
• Sex was in the air the day I encountered Nina. I felt it as soon as the sweet June morning kissed my neck, when I emerged through my front door with my cheerful necktie proud on my chest and the short curls of my hair still damp from the shower.
• The subway platform sizzled with the vitality of horny humans, frisky organisms who had bundled their hormones into workaday clothing but who nonetheless represented pure erogenous energy. The women’s thighs, bare below flirty summer dresses, sang desire to me, and their naked, friendly shoulders seemed to invite unseen lovers.