Some Questions Are Too Personal to Ask

Mimi was a spinster, they said in those days, a woman who lived by herself all her life. And so i was always curious about this. So one very brazenly, i said, mimi, all these years you lived by yourself. You never had a beau. All these years and suddenly, this woman, who had been throwing her dress over her head, sat up straight in her chair and folded her arms in front of her to say some questions are too personal to ask. It reminded me that there's always a whole human being there. Sometimes in a very distressing disguise. But we can always, we can find a way of speaking directly to that