Why Don't You Dance? Love/Marriage/Sex Quotes

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Quote #7

"You must be desperate or something," she said.

Weeks later, she said: "The guy was about middle-aged. All his things right there in his yard. No lie. We got real pissed and danced. In the driveway. Oh, my God. Don't laugh. He played us these records. Look at this record-player. The old guy give it to us. And all these crappy records. Will you look at this s***?" (96-97)

Despite being into the dancing enough to be breathing into the older dude's neck (which means she definitely moves in close), the young girl calls him desperate—and then proceeds to talk about him as though he is sad and pathetic after the evening has ended. Thing is, she knows this isn't the full story of what went on with the older man, but she can't seem to get at the truth of what was going on there. And so we're all left feeling pretty unsettled.