I spent most of the car ride to my 20 year high school
reunion trying to figure out how to answer the “so where’s your husband?”
question. Numerous responses came to mind such as “He’s in my dream
house” (at the time of purchase it indeed was a dream house), “I left him home
but my escort cancelled”, “I don’t have one anymore”, “He fell off a
boat”. Only to be asked one question by a classmate married with children,
“So what’s your story, single, married, etc?” With my response being “Divorced”
and his immediately being, “That bastard” which is much better than the typical “Oh I’m
so sorry to hear that”. It was a funny, classic moment and definitely
uplifting since it was coming from someone not even knowing anything about me
in the last 20 years.
Amongst friends new and old, and old acquaintances being
brought up to speed the night could have been without the breeze (and smell) of
low tide and burnt popcorn. Kudos to the bartender for remembering (and
properly pouring) my drinks for the evening.
And thanks to my fans, my new fans who I had no idea you
were reading this, it means a lot so please comment often! I will try to
keep it ‘honest and raw’ for ‘Hello my name is ____ husband’ who wants to one
day make the blog. Well then I guess I’ll coordinate an outing with your wife
and we’ll all go out and I’ll bring my notebook. I wasn’t expecting to
write anything after Saturday, yet wanted to extend my utmost thanks to my
followers who like to ‘keep it real’ and ‘honest’. Sometimes the truth
hurts and sometimes its worth a laugh, if only I wasn’t so in deep with poetry
20 years ago imagine the stories I would have told back then!
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