Scott McClanahan

Then she helped me take off her maternity dress and I just stood without anything on except for my white pantyhose.

“You know I never got a chance to have a little girl—but you were the prettiest one there tonight. I always wanted a girl.”

By this time I was sick of talking about it.

I stood in my white pantyhose and my red lipstick.  And then I went and sat down in front of the TV and watched this Vietnam War show on CBS called Tour of Duty.