you and Erica have been dating for a while and tonight was the first night you slept with her as you both woke up you began talking and while you got ready she sat up on the bed Erica: “i can’t believe my whole life, my whole adult life…i’ve been with men and it always felt fine, good but i never- i mean- i mean i did but, not like this, this…is like needing glasses” you give her a confused look Erica: “when i was a kid, i would get these headaches and i went to the doctor and they said that i needed glasses, i didn’t understand that, it didn’t make sense to me because i could see fine. and then i get the glasses, and i put them on, and i’m in the car on the way home, a-and suddenly i yell because the big green blobs that i had been staring at my whole life…they weren’t big green blobs, they were leaves, on trees, i could see the leaves and i didn’t even know i was missing the leaves i didn’t even know that leaves existed, and then: leaves…” “…you are glasses…”