Tore Down

February, 2007

ow bad was it? Well, she slept with my best friend while I was in the hospital for four days for a her­nia operation. That's what my friends told me, and I believed them, though she never confessed. And that was not the worst part.The worst part came after, when we couldn't break things off. I was 19 and she was 17, and neither one of us had any idea what to do. I moved to Montana without her. She came out West to visit me, broke up with me again, reunited with me over the telephone, then moved...