‘It does?’ ‘Adam’s apple,’ he said, touching his throat. ‘Women have them, too, but they’re far less prominent. Laurie wore the scarf to hide it.’ ‘Right,’ I said, feeling stupid. I took a few deep breaths. ‘OK,’ I continued. ‘Adam’s apples, I get. But how on earth did she hide . . . you know?’ ‘Her sexual organs?’ ‘Exactly.’ ‘Well, the testicles could be tucked up into the body where they originally came from, I suppose. Whenever they get cold, they tend to migrate northward anyway.’ ‘They do?’ In spite of sex education classes in high school and decades of marriage, this fact was news to me. ‘And the penis?’ ‘Having little experience wearing ladies’ underpants, I really haven’t a clue.’ ‘That’s reassuring, darling, but not particularly helpful.’ ‘That’s why God invented the Internet.’ Logging on to the Internet in our basement office a few minutes later, I discovered that what Paul told me about the testicles was true; they could easily be persuaded to disappear within the body.
