The Way We Were...

Do you ever just sit around and flip through old photo-albums of past girlfriends?
I do.
That’s what I am doing right now, sitting at this Starbucks, after work. On the way out the door this morning I took this one photo album I have. It’s the best one. At a whim, I just threw it in my backpack.
So I am now here, sipping good coffee, and walking through the corridors of time.

I sure have gone out with some fine fine girls. Sometimes, for more than a month, even.
There’s ______ [name witheld]. We really had great times, I’m telling you. But it all ended due to irreconcilable differences. I wanted to read books all the time. She wanted to do all kinds of other stuff.
Then here’s one of ______ [name witheld]. The first thing we ever did together was have a snowball fight, after being introduced to each other by mutual friends earlier in the evening. I pelted her with a few beauties, but then man, she nearly killed me with a direct hit, right on the shnozz. I fell for her smile, and her incredible aim. I love a girl with good aim.
All of these pictures really take me back.
But then I turned the page.... and oh my!
There she was.
That’s her picture, right there at the top of this blog.

So she’s got a bit of a nose, yes... [you learn to work around it] but seriously now, I’m revealing to you here the love of my life and I will not take kindly to any untoward remarks about her rather unique....... appearance!
As soon as I saw this picture again, it was like I heard the opening strains of that ancient Streisand song.... you know the one.... “Memories. Like the corners of my mind. Misty water-colored memories......”

I look away, but the music does not stop.

“Scattered pictures, of the smiles we left behind........”
Admittedly, it was a very brief affair. But all the same, I am left here this evening, filled with thoughts of the way we were.....

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