I knew it was you! Ha Ha. An interesting follow up to my story. She dumped me right before we were both heading back to school. Unbeknownst to me until the day she left, she had a boyfriend who was in Navy or Air Force, maybe ROTC, who was overseas during that summer. I remember trying to contact her that fall and her roommate telling me to stop calling, it's over, stop bothering her, etc. So I moved on.
Fast forward 20 plus years. I'm sitting in my office in Boston maybe 2006 or 2007 and I get a call and it was her. She tracked me down and this came totally out of the blue. Absolutely no contact before that. Turns out she had married the other guy, had moved to Florida, and things weren't going well. They were getting divorced (hard to believe!) and she was heading back North and wanted to meet up in NYC. She said she had made a mistake back in 1984 and asked if I was married and how it was going. She frankly sounded a little off during the call. At that time I was happily married (still am) and had a son, so I said I was doing great, thanks for the call, best wishes.
A week later she called again and made the same pitch to no avail.
I must say I got some satisfaction with those two phone calls, and
realized I may have dodged a bullet. Things have a way of working out.
I'll always have that summer and Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" to bring back the memories.
