It’s always the same, the facts.
The retelling of them, not so much. A detail here and there is added or removed. Not out of deliberate editing, but for the simple reason that each retelling is different.
And so, there are a lot of “maybes.” This is a story then, about a girl who broke my heart. [...]
I remember very clearly.
It’s a colder spring day in 1996 and I’m shivering in my long wool coat. Despite living in the District for three winters, I still haven’t learned to layer.
I look over to my girlfriend, and she’s occupied with driving. She shifts matter of factly in the stop and go traffic on Rockville [...]
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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“Hello,” I say, as my hand extends to yours. I’ve read your nametag, although I recognize you all the same. Your hair has changed, and you wear your glasses now, but otherwise you’re still the same woman I fell in love with over a decade ago.
I guess that’s the allure and the danger of ten [...]
When I found the place again, it was through an advanced google search, the one where you have to get it to look for a specific phrase while at the same time eliminating results with a different specific phrase.
Even then I only found the place after eight pages of results.
It takes me a few more [...]