Memory Lane has a few potholes to repair, but it’s still worth the trip
Buried in a box in the cupboard, under notes and letters and other written breadcrumbs of our early relationship, is a mixed tape. I made it for my husband way back when. In those early butterfly days, I was striving to impress him more than anything else, but there is still a significance to each song, a metaphor in the Modigliani print I used as a front piece, telling clues in the A side/B side titles. Seventeen years later that mixed tape is still there: a tangible relationship artifact.
In the museum of our love, it would be in a little case with a spotlight.
It occurred to me recently that my kids will never know the stomach plummeting emotions that come when someone hands you a mixed tape. They will never sit on their beds listening to a tape made by a crush. They’ll never hold it, examine the handwriting, interpret…
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Good stuff . So true!
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Thanks. I’m in a nostalgic kind of mood, seemed fitting to set this one out there again!
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Missing that era.. Nostalgic.
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I miss it too.
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This really takes me back. Loved reading this.
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I’m glad. We may have had to get up to change the channel and lug textbooks home from school, but there’s a lot of great stuff buried in those memories.
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