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Sneak Preview, part two.

"A heart-wrenching mix of sadness and humor... As men, we will not fully understand the humor of hair removal, perhaps, but her themes are resonant for all people, men and

women, who've had love and loss and laughed in between."   -- Drew Emborsky, author of "Men Who Knit and The Dogs Who Love Them"

Chapter 32 (continued)

"The main “essential” on my shopping list and the reason I had to go to the Big Grocery store instead of my corner 7-Eleven was… baby food.

"I do not have a baby.

"I do, however, have one spoiled-rotten cat with no teeth.  Roy is old, and he is 25 percent of my court-ordered divorce settlement, and I intend to keep him alive as long as possible, so as to more fully appreciate the spoils of my dissolution.  With it being Christmas Eve and all, it seemed like everyone should have a little something special, including the cats.  And there’s nothing like a spoonful of meat pudding to make an animal happy.   Until I’d started buying this delicacy for my cat, I never knew there were so many kinds of baby food!  When my brothers and I were babies, my folks just mashed up whatever was for dinner and we had to like it whether we liked it or not.  We liked it.

"The grocery shopping experience had changed for me in the months since I’d become single again.  I noticed for the very first time that there is a distinct and obvious difference between single Groceries and married Groceries."

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