I was getting an email address from a printer over the phone and had to ask her spell out the name:<\/p>\n

“A as in Aardvark, B as in Boy, D as in Dog. At. D as in Duck, P as in…”<\/p>\n

Long pause. She goes dry. You could physically feel her grope for a word over the phone lines.<\/p>\n

“…penis.”<\/p>\n

The rest of the conversation between us was punctuated with snorts. Like teens in History class accused of farting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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