“On a scale of one to ten, how bad would it be for me to reengage with a person from my past who completely lost his memory of me, even though he was the biggest part of my life until I was almost twenty years old? And then he randomly showed up to my husband’s dinner party as the architect building our new house? And he felt like we knew each other, but he didn’t remember, even though a big part of me wishes he remembered, but I don’t want him to remember everything because everything wasn’t good, but it also wasn’t all bad.” Joseph snickered, added too much sweetener to his coffee, and
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