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After the narrator’s breakup with Pen, he decides he will hurt other girls, in order to make them feel the same pain he feels, which he describes as manifesting physically: “A burning sensation in my chest as if a large smoldering boulder had somehow lodged there overnight” (21). The narrator reflects on each new discomfort he feels, filing the pain away like a scientist. He calls Pen,needing to hate her, but she doesn’t answer.
He meets a twenty-five-year-old teacher from Ireland who is engaged to be married and is embarrassed that she is still a virgin. He thinks of her fiancé and decides to leave her hymen intact but ensure that she will think of him every time she has sex with her husband-to-be. He performs cunnilingus on her for hours and masturbates her, careful not to break her hymen.
He meets Lizzie, “freshly jilted from a long-term relationship and […] very delicate” (24). Lizzie later leaves a message saying the narrator raped her, which the narrator denies in the physical sense, although he believes he might have done so emotionally. He reflects on his alcoholism and karma.
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