Have you ever met an old flame? What happened?

OregonGuy

OregonGuy

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I met mine at our HS 50th year reunion. We both wished our only marriage was to one another.
I love the meaning of the song Taxi:
Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” is a nostalgic journey that tells the story of a cab driver encountering an old flame. It’s a poignant narrative about life’s twists and turns—how big dreams often give way to reality. The message? It’s a blend of reflection on lost love and the acceptance of life’s unexpected paths. The song reflects on the gap between youthful aspirations and adult realities. Chapin weaves this experience with a sense of personal retrospect, possibly drawing from his own life’s what-ifs. He explores the universal theme of the roads we take and the ones we leave behind.

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OregonGuy said:
I met mine at our HS 50th year reunion. We both wished our only marriage was to one another.
I love the meaning of the song Taxi:
Harry Chapin’s “Taxi” is a nostalgic journey that tells the story of a cab driver encountering an old flame. It’s a poignant narrative about life’s twists and turns—how big dreams often give way to reality. The message? It’s a blend of reflection on lost love and the acceptance of life’s unexpected paths. The song reflects on the gap between youthful aspirations and adult realities. Chapin weaves this experience with a sense of personal retrospect, possibly drawing from his own life’s what-ifs. He explores the universal theme of the roads we take and the ones we leave behind.

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Have you played his Sequel song. Pretty cool how he's now 10 years later and meets Sue again.


 
About a year after my wife passed away I met a lady that I went out with for a while about 40 years ago. We ran into each other again and again different places and saw each other's posts on fb. She messaged me asking if I would be interested in going for dinner with a few other people she gets together with. She recognized that it might put me a bit out of my comfort zone, but I figured it might be good to test it.
There are six or seven of us that get together pretty much once a month now. I didn't know it for the first few times that all of us have lost loved ones in the recent past.
We have a good time and talk a lot.
 
I went out with a guy, I was about 19. I can't remember why we broke up so obviously nothing traumatic. Met him again somewhere( can't remember where) in my late twenties. Started going out again. Phoned his parents' home because somehow I didn't have his present phone number, and needed to tell him something about a change in plans. I had met his parents previously when I was 19.

So his mother answers the phone and she says that he doesn't live there anymore, which made sense. I explained who I was and she remembered who I was. I was just going to tell her why I was calling and she cut me off, nicely, and said, " Oh, how nice to hear from you. Are you married now too? Joe (her son, my old boyfriend) is out picking up his wife at work. "

Well, you could have knocked me over with a feather. So I lied and said that, " Oh, Joe and I saw each other downtown, and just had a coffee. I'm still studying at McGill and I think Joe took a book of mine by mistake." Anyways, I made up something like that. I don't know how I made anything up, I was in shock! In retrospect, I should have told his mom! Anyways he never called me back. I think his mom knew that he was fooling around and let him know.
 
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