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True confession: President's Day 2007

I just spent a half-hour Googling an ex-boyfriend who I got so close to marrying, we had napkins with our names printed on them. I have no idea where he is now, nor am I really interested. So why am I Googling him?

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Even though you aren't interested in where he is now, you must at least have some kind of a general interest or curiosity about this ex-boyfriend to make that much of an effort to Google him. (I think Dr. Freud would agree with me on this one). It's probably just some kind of vague curiosity.

Occasionally I've done internet searches on an ex-girlfriend who I was exceptionally close to. No matter how I do it, I never find more than the same three or four references. (Strangely enough, one of them is from an Italian translation of a book written by someone else I used to know - apparently the Italian version of the excerpt was published on the internet but not the original English).

But anyway, even though I may not really have any specific interest in where she is now, or expect to ever see her again, I do have some kind of a general curiosity. I think it's partly that I just wonder whether or not she's still alive (the world is such a volatile place - if you haven't seen or heard from someone for a number of years, you never really know). Perhaps it's the same with you, Liz - maybe you're just wondering whether or not your ex-boyfriend is still alive.

Because we can..we all do it.

Two crucial questions:

1.What was the color theme?
and
2. Did you lose the catering deposit?

Hee Hee @ HS... 3third question..Did you give back the ring? If not how much was it worth?

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Liz Spikol is senior contributing editor of Philadelphia Weekly. She writes the award-winning column The Trouble With Spikol, which began as a chronicle of her struggle with mental illness, and has since expanded into humorous musings on everything from graphic novels to how to use a mop. She also writes the paper's book review column, Lit Gloss. This blog -- named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 by PsychCentral -- is about mental illness policy, news, personal journeys and more.