Hah. You don't have to butter me up. I like wearing them for you. I like wearing them for myself. They make me feel pretty, and that's nice sometimes.

[She imagined it had to be hard for him. People treated him either as a psycho, a monster, or like someone that knew what was going on around them. He was like one of the old men down at the park playing chess, only he just didn't look it. She couldn't imagine any of them talking about crotchless panties either, even though they'd probably gotten to live through the normalising of it. She could cut him some slack.]

Crotchless panties and a garter belt you can take off with your teeth?