“With nothing more than thin spandex covering my chest, even the blind would notice that my nipples were so hard, they could cut glass”

“And I am ashamed to write here that I felt more alive than ever, even though my heart was broken glass in my chest.”

“Yesterday I complained of chest pains. My cat scratched my nipples.”

“The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.”

“Bathing is even more embarrassing, because I have to strip down to my birthday suit in front of a nurse. Now, there are some things that never die, so even though I'm in my nineties my sap sometimes rises. I can't help it. They always pretend not to notice. They're trained that way, I suppose, although pretending not to notice is almost worse than noticing. It means they consider me nothing more than a harmless old man sporting a harmless old penis that still gets uppity once in a while. Although if one of them took it seriously and tried to do something about it, the shock would probably kill me.”

“An old western standoff had nothing on the looks that my mom and grandma were exchanging. A tumbleweed could have rolled through the kitchen and neither would have noticed.”