Saturday, April 23, 2011

My sister, the cougar

My wife (Ms. Molly) and my eldest sister (Ms. Occasionally-Militant-But-Always-Bitter-Former-Member-of-Church), who is a dozen or so years my senior, have an interesting relationship. My wife genuinely likes her and is, I believe, genuinely interested in her well-being. But I wonder whether some of it is a curious fascination with the taboo, or an opportunity to be assured of piousness.

Anyway, my sister called my wife the other day, and in the course of the conversation mentioned --or perhaps this was the central purpose of the call, who knows-- that she'd had sex with an Italian guy, newly arrived in New York as a rising hot shot in his field, who is about my age. And my sister named me specifically when saying that he is about my age, which kind of gives me the willies. Not the fact that he's my age, but that she named me when relating the tale of a tryst. Anyway, evidently she said it was "by far the most incredible sex" she's ever had, and wondered what my wife thought about that. My wife never said how she responded and I didn't ask, but she asked me what I thought of it. What I thought was, "More power to her." But what I said was, "I don't know that my opinion on it matters to you or her."

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