This reading is interesting for a number of reasons. The first thing I would like to address is the fact that this piece is written as a retrospective, I think that this gives the story a totally new meaning and feel that could only be done with this sort of perspective on this person’s story. The other interesting thing is the very complex and almost weird power struggle that occurs between Ron and Sarah. Although Ron has no physical attraction to Sarah he treats the first encounter very gently, gingerly, and with a sense of precision. These two eventually become lovers until they have a tad of fallout because Sarah feels that Ron does not want to be seen in public with her. This is justifiable because as the narrator states “Ron is effortlessly attractive” and the narrator says “I’ve seen a few women who were more unattractive than Sarah.” The major issue is when Sarah wants to get Ron to come over and introduce him to the kids and actually make things work. Ron is reluctant to do this. This fallout leads to an assumption by one of Sarah’s co-workers that she had moved back in with her ex-husband. Ron cannot really comprehend this and can only reminisce about Sarah if he convinces himself she were dead. She has this power over him, but at the same time he was the one making most of the terms of the relationship. It is my opinion that he cannot grasp the fact that he let this woman he loved go, so he has to self-rationalize that she is dead, only then can he remember things. I find the last full paragraph the most descriptive. He explains how as he curses her and expels her from his life, she is showing how beautiful she is, and once she is gone Ron can only blame himself for doing this, not only to Sarah, but to himself.