She considers it a symbol of imperfection and how acceptance of imperfection creates beauty. It’s like the constant struggle of life to keep up and ...vercome our perceived deficiencies.’ She pulled her hand off mine with those crumbled and jagged edges on the red nail polish. She looked with worry at the half empty Starbucks coffee cup with the red lipstick mark. Her facial expression turned inward, like a train having popped off the track forced to face with what to do now. The moment passed.. Assuming it was an onset of psychosis, the scientists paid little attention to the man’s concerns. Two days later, the man cried that he could hear his dead wife speaking with him, and even more, he could communicate back. The scientists were intrigued, but were not convinced until the subject started naming dead relatives of the scientists. He repeated personal information to the scientists that only their dead spouses and parents would have known. At this point, a sizable portion of. We had been high school sweethearts who had given each other our virginities at my prom. Initially, we had fucked like rabbits but in the last year or so the fire had been missing from our sex life. In the last few months, I had started wondering what it would be like to fuck someone else. I was questioning the wisdom of marrying the first person I had screwed. I thought that maybe I should have fucked around more before settling down. I had found myself focusing on all the things that we. ‘It’s not surprising. This isn’t really your scene, you know.’ One hand slid up my neck and stroked my filigree elf earrings. ‘Elf princess belongs in the woods.’I murmured my agreement. It was silly to have worn elf ears to a vampire party anyway. I didn’t know why I had. Just because I liked them, I guess, and I never had anywhere to wear them.‘Why don’t you come and sit down?’ the voice continued, helping me off the bar stool and leading me gently but firmly from behind towards some couches.