CutBank Volume 1 Issue 75 CutBank 75 Article 32 Fall 2011 Rough Like Wool Becky Adnot Haynes Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank Part of the Creative Writing Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Recommended Citation Haynes, Becky Adnot (2011) "Rough Like Wool," CutBank: Vol. 1 : Iss. 75 , Article 32. Available at: https://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss75/32 This Prose is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Becky a d n o t H aynes R o u g h L ike W ool It was an inauspicious beginning, one that made Nell, who thought beginnings especially important, wont to call the whole thing off, but her best friend Mandy argued that she shouldn’t let a good thing go so easily— and besides, it was a thing that tons of people were doing nowadays; Hillary Rodham Clinton even met Bill on an internet dating site, if she could believe that. “Is that right.” Nell peered at her friend. Mandy sighed. “No. Sorry. I couldn’t think of anyone famous who met her husband online, but I’m sure there’s someone. Just not Hillary. Too bad, though, because she’d be a really good advocate.” While she was speaking, she turned a pale orangey-pink, the color of a cooked shrimp.