“And I have been wanting,” Jackie continued, “to sleep with you for a while now. “You are not the sort to chase every skirt around. XXX We shared a bed almost one night a week for five months, until Jackie went to visit relatives, who convinced her that she had no future with a white man. And four people would fill a booth. Jackie Romains, a thin black woman with big glasses, big eyes, smallish breasts, and curly hair, as well as a roguish smile, commented on the fact that Arlene was conspicuously with me tonight. “Not that I mind having to change the sheet, but the size of the wet spot was surprising,” she said. I tried to bring her back, and indeed we slept together twice more, but things faded and finally she moved and did not give me the new address, and I
