Some conversational topics are not worth exploring. Like first spouses, or expensive, ill-fitting clothing, purchased against your keenest intuition and the straightforward testimony of your senses. Best assigned to the very darkest recesses of the closet, later to be given up willingly to needy strangers.

Bolster yourself. Give these cloying memories no toehold in the hothouse of your imagination. Let them wither.

2/18/2023