Summary

In Part 3, Chapter 25, the narrator stops “worrying about hormones falling and libido waning” (273). However, she still has perimenopausal symptoms. One day, she starts thinking about FMH, and discovers the support page is gone.

Kris tells the narrator that she met an artist “in her mid-sixties named Elsa Penbrook-Gibbard,” who she thinks is interested in her (275). The narrator pretends to be Elsa during sex with Kris.

In Chapter 26, the narrator and Harris decide to tell Sam about their new arrangement. They write a script together and plan out the conversation. Later, the narrator visits her doctor and asks about her experience of perimenopause. Afterwards, she starts a poll with her friends about the best parts of menopause (280). She is shocked by the number of responses. Shortly thereafter, she engages some friends in conversation about her marital arrangement. The friends admit...