The memory of tonight was as unblemished as new-fallen snow that I had to protect from careless footsteps.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalShe was wearing her fuzzy pink hat and she was happy, which was so obnoxious. She'd become one of those people who waltzed through life without so much as a split end, and I was still one of those people who changed diapers for free but still got treated like a rented mule.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: happiness envy obliviousness
Thunder crashed, lightning ripped across the sky, and we stayed on the bench with our arms around each other even though rain fell in heavy drops around us. I didn't mind getting soaked because it felt as if Blake needed me, and I wanted him to.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalI thought he should have realized sooner that important people don't show up very often, and you should hold on to them when they do. Maybe I was smarter than he was all along, because that was something I'd always known.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: relationships breakups
And I didn't tell mom what happened. She'd already warned me that bad things could hide in the most unlikely places.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: bad dangerous realization
I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: past future love move-on guys lorraine-zago-rosenthal
Blake stared at me and I sensed what he was getting at - there wasn't anybody important, he was going to be in New York permanently after law school. As I stood there looking at him, Summer popped into my mind. I heard her saying "I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I know them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future". Back then I had thought she was probably right. Now I was sure.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalWhen she was gone, I went to the basement, found an empty box, and sealed the teddy bear and the NYU sweatshirt inside with heavy-duty tape. I started thinking about Leigh's ID bracelet and I imagined that one day, maybe years and years from now, I might open the box and say the same thing to my daughter that Leigh might say to hers: This was from a boy I used to know. He was very special to me, but that was so long ago.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: love-firstlove
Bye-bye, I thought, almost sure that I'd never see her again. But if I did - if we ran into each other someday - I knew we would smile and say polite things like How are you? and Give my regards to your parents, and we would secretly remember that we used to mean something to each other. And even if that never happened, if we never spoke again, I was grateful we'd have tonight.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: friend-growingup
I remembered the things we used to talk about, the things we'd planned. But now I wanted other things, new things, like the career that people at work kept telling me I was sure to have. I'd probably want the house and the kids and the husband one day, but not yet. There were so many things I wanted to do between now and then. I also knew that Park Slope wasn't the only place in planet to plant a flower garden. There were even better places out there somewhere.
Lorraine Zago RosenthalTags: love
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