“The organic produce guy, a young man who’d left Brooklyn in order to minimize his carbon footprint and consume only things he could make or grow himself. This had come to involve... going toilet-paper free the year before, and making his wife use discarded athletic socks for her monthly cycle.‘That poor girl!’ said Sylvie, privately resolving to figure out where the young woman was living and anonymously deliver some tampons, the really bad kind, with non biodegradable plastic applicators.”
