Twice Told

 Natalie is graduating from college and is going off to a new beginning.   My college graduation felt like an ending.  I loved college,  The classes and the friends.  Could anything going forward be as great?

I didn’t have any family members coming to the ceremony so I wasn’t planning to attend.  But one of the girls in the sorority was also alone so I went to keep her company.  Later we went to a few parties.

As I was leaning in to say goodbye to a friend, the car door swung suddenly against my nose.  It really hurt.  And it hurt driving all the way back to Detroit.  It was broken.

Yes, my graduation was a breakup.  All the way.

Now I am back at Northwestern taking classes for oldsters.  Some of the same buildings are there, plus lots of new ones.  The sorority house is long gone, but my college roommate (who remains a best friend) lives on the same street where all of us gals once lived together.

Sometimes broken things come back together again…just in a different way.