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“Is that the key to a long and happyout of each other’s hen you’re in a mood?”

“If it isn’t, it should be”

A stockbroker proposed tosix months when he asked reed since things were going well and I wasn’t going to Whiskey Springs anyway But the last thing I expected was for him to drop down to one knee in front of his entire extended family and ask me to marry him

I loved Ian—but it didn’t feel half the way it felt when I loved Wyatt, so I wasn’t sure if it was real love or if I was caught up in the newness and excitement of a fresh relationship I didn’t want to hurt hi bride-to-be, and we spent the rest of that weekend celebrating with his fa Ian, a small piece of me died inside because I could only ever picture myself with Wyatt

I waited another month to break it off—not because I was afraid to hurt hihtto Ian He was a sweet Midwestern boy Corn fed Kind faood to me

But it didn’t ht of tying myself to him for the rest of my life made me ill for reasons I couldn’t fully comprehend

It’s as ifhim

I heard through the grapevine shortly after we broke up that he found soirl fro hi hi myself to send

No one needs a reminder of the one who broke their heart when all they want is to ain

“I got invited to a divorce party on Friday,” I tell my dad

“And are you going?”

“It’s a bunch of girls I knew froh school Bumped into one of them at the store earlier I think she’d be bummed if I didn’t show up”

That and I could really use a stiff drink and a night to let loose

“You better not disappoint them then,” he says

We stroll down the block, past the houses I used to speed by on my bicycle on the way to the park, and later in my car on the way to theater rehearsals Many of thenize It’s not unlike seeing old friends, I’d suppose

Old lovers, too

No one stays the same