Men can now buy love for a few days’ worth of work.
While riding home one evening we came across a signpost which read.
LOVE FOR HIRE, FOR ONLY A FEW PENNIES, GET LOTS OF HUGS PLUS TWO HOURS OF EXTA FREE CHAT.
This notion led the cowboys believe that a woman’s love is tied to money, if it’s not that then at least something instead, either its attention, care, understanding, whatever it may be. She can never give her love for free, not unless she gets something in return. Why would you love someone for nothing anyway? Would you love that stone over there just because it exists? It lays calmly in its place, you like it when you find out it can be cut and used to fill the gaps in your ruinous fence wall, a love of give and take
