Installment #5 from my memoir

In which I return upstate and things happen

Of course I remember what I wore when I went to see Dan: a black silk camisole that perfectly covered my radiation marks, a navy cardigan, low-slung Levi's, and those Frye harness boots again with a favorite Helmut Lang pea coat I'd had since 1996. My version of seductive, circa 2004. I almost missed the train entirely, because they were already backed up at radiation, but somehow, miraculously, I made it out in time. Told my driver Simon I was going to Grand Central instead of the office, and that he didn't have to pick me up from work today. Simon, ever-discreet, didn't ask questions.