Her fingernail polish was chipped at the edges. He wondered what that said about her. Maybe she was just exceptionally busy and didn’t take time for things like painting her nails. Maybe she’d run out of nail polish remover. Maybe her niece had painted them and she just didn’t want to remove it yet.

He had no doubt about what the color meant, though. Soft pink. (Was there such a thing a hard pink?) A girl who wore pastels was gentle, feminine—a girl out of a 50’s sitcom. She wanted a family.

What if she didn’t usually wear pink?