Cohen and His Wife, a Heart Surgeon

The doctor's own wife had died and after a sufficient period of mourning, he'd joined a book club. Nadine discovered that the surgeon, despite his loss, could achieve erection,. Though still he found, had always found, his wife's body to be beautiful. The way she moved through a room crowded with people could still arrest him. All that he held against her was vast, immeasurable, but now and always and still, her smell.