Contributor: Frank Holland
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Mrs. Perkins asked her friend Jeanette, “Is that normal, for a man to give it a name?”
“Give what a name?”
“You know: it.”
From Mrs. Perkins' timid manner Jeanette understood what she referred to; but, to make sure, she asked, “It?”
“Yes, his-- ” Mrs. Perkins's eyes closed modestly. “ --manhood.” Then she reopened them. “Do men do that -- call it by name, like it's human, like it has a life of its own?”
“Well, sometimes it does.”
“What?”
“Have a life-- ” She hesitated. Although still...

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Frank Holland