He closes his eyes and prays. Mr. Griffiths was married for 30 years before he got divorced. That might be reason enough to get emotional about them, and about their unseen wounds. Maybe that went to the back of your mind and stayed there, just maybe. Inside, file boxes fill a small front room.
Family snapshots cover the top of an upright piano.
Above the couch hang four artful pictures of naked couples, clipped from a magazine and framed. Don't unless you must. Nothing beyond the fringe in that. Circumcision may still be the surgery performed most frequently in the U.S., but in other countries, far from it. And although many American doctors still insist it reduces urinary infections and a rare form of cancer, among other things, the practice is on the decline.