"So there I was in the men's locker room
with a baseball cap pulled down over my eyes
and my brother's hightop sneakers on my feet -
wads of tissue stuck in the extra space in the toes.
It is an interesting variation on stuffing wads of paper into your bra,
don't you think?"
Shelly was laughing too hard to answer.

"It was a research project of sorts," I continued.
_____"A serious sociological research project."

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