Do you read the women's sports pages? The New York Times refers to it as The Sunday Styles Section. Can you imagine that?

Anyway, it's the Times' play by play of life in the fast lane.  The ultimate scorecard is how many fetes one can attend, coupled with who wed whom.

There are pages and pages devoted to marriage announcements. Additionally, there is always a highlighted story, I think it is called modern vows, that gives an in depth back story, apparently worthy of devoting paragraphs to explain.

They met, they dated, they broke up, they reconnected, they broke up again, they married others, they reunited, they wed. They lived happily ever after. We hope, because we really don't know, except that every so often the Times revisits these highlighted stories to see how the marriage held up. Some well, alas, others, not so well.

Too bad.

But, as to the stories about folks who knew one an other in an earlier lifetime, parted and then found one another for a second go around, I thought maybe I should revisit ghosts from my past.

The major challenge was,  of course, remembering names.

So, with a little Google look here, and a facebook look there, e i e i o, (too much time with grandbabies??) I came up pretty empty. Did they all the guys from my past fall off the earth? Did I only know non accomplished people? Are they so wildly successful that they live anonymously? Did I actually remember the right names?

But then,  I thought, was there actually a first go around worthy of a second go around? Hmmm, not so much.

However, if someone from my past is reading this, and thinks we actually did have a connection once, wishes for a waltz down memory lane…..I'm here.

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