Absurdly, I had assumed she would be wearing a suit or business casual, probably because I associated her primarily with her job as a lawyer. Josephina wore Birkenstocks, too, and a lot of jewelry—not the pricey, glittery stuff, but that carefully considered morass of metal and leather and string that signifies “Bohemian” for girls too sheltered to have shopped at street stands or flea markets. Josephina had no doubt bought her Bohemia from a store at the mall—sorting through a throng of fake silver chiming in the AC breeze—a store much like the one that I had just visited to get my nose
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