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In reply to the discussion: How do you remember your first love? [View all]DFW
(54,051 posts)28. With a trace of nostalgia, but also with gratitude, like "Pamela Brown"
"Lord, I hope she's happy, 'cause she sure deserves to be
Especially for what she did for me."
Like Aristus, I looked her up, and she has adult children, presumably successful ones. The guy she married was involved in some dubious international bank scandal in 2008, and was given a 150 million golden parachute to go away, which I'm sure he was happy to do.
If she hadn't left for the bigger and better deal, I never would have met the woman who became my wife, and THAT--though I never would have found out--would have been the biggest tragedy of all.
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Every now and then I check the obit pages to see if the duplicitous bastard is dead yet.
The Velveteen Ocelot
Jun 2020
#3
the close calls would likely all have been disasters. My real true love and I are in our 40th
NRaleighLiberal
Jun 2020
#16
Without sounding overly religious, I have lived to thank God that all my prayers...
NNadir
Jun 2020
#24
We were on competing ski teams. He was the number one racer on the best team and I was
smirkymonkey
Jun 2020
#30