Picture it: December 23, 1987. You’ve been waiting all summer for the season premiere of your favorite show, Dynasty. What outrageous slapping fights will the obscenely wealthy Carringtons get into this time? What giant-shouldered Nolan Miller gowns will Joan Collins strut around the mansion wearing? Will they just let the Stephen character be gay for once in his life? The show starts. They’re doing the recap from last season. You see all the familiar scenes.
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As she described the encounters, it became clear to all of us who worked in the store that the “ghost” in the stories matched the exact physical description of her boyfriend; and that she was, for some reason, relating sexual encounters with him that would have been entirely normal if she wasn’t framing them as assignations with a spirit.
To this day, I have no idea why she told these stories though I suspect it was her way of talking about sex from a safe remove, of verbalizing sexual thoughts through a layer of fiction.
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