Lesly Sloan

We were in a strip joint in Juarez, across the bridge from El Paso. I was sitting with my buddies from Fort Bliss, doing what GI's do in Juarez: eat hot food, get laid in whore houses, and bitch about the Army over beers. We went to strip clubs and got shit-faced...

I meet Joanne occasionally in a coffee shop near my place. We tend to talk about the men in our lives, or the lack of men in our lives. Today she was bursting to tell me something. "I've got some news for you," she said. "I'm involved with a guy now who gives the best...