Love me tender

When the narrator of Love Me Tender told her ex-husband she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son. Paul was trained to say he no longer wanted to see his mother, and the judge believed him. Invigorated by her new-found freedom,the narrator approaches life with passionate intensity. She has her cigarettes, the pool where she swims daily and two regular lovers in addition to the women she encounters in the street, at the bar, at readings of her work. Her routine is monastic and military. She is filled with desire for an unencumbered existence, certain that no love can last. And yet, she cannot entirely forget about Paul.