“She doesn’t return my phone calls. I’d like them back, unopened.”
“The Professor doesn’t have a problem being called Dick? If my name was Richard, I’d go by Richard or Rich . . . not Dick. Hell, I’d even settle for being called Chard.”
“If love were a pirate, then maybe I would wear an unopened condom over my eye, like an eye patch, and shave off all my pubes and glue them to my face and call myself “Dick Beard.”
“Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world.”
“Just like that, with one phone call, she was a daughter again.”
“We had an unspoken love for one another. Probably because she’d never talk to me or return my phone calls or texts. ”