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High School Reunion
An Open Relationship Tale
“Some of my female classmates were really happy to see me at the reunion,” Tom texted.
“Exactly how happy?” his wife asked.
“VERY happy,” he answered.
The Other Woman
It was their fifteen-year high school reunion at a fancy restaurant in Stockholm. The butterflies in her stomach soared when she saw him walk in. When he said “Hey, Anna…” and hugged her, she knew she was in trouble.
They hadn’t seen each other in years. He moved to another continent right after high school, and she thought her feelings for him were long gone. She’d gotten married, had a kid, and became a widow all during this time, after all. But it turned out that her love for him was only hibernating. The minute she glanced into his eyes, all the memories came rushing back. Their first kiss under a lilac bush in the eighth grade, the walk home when he bought her a banana to save her from starvation, the educational video they watched together to figure out how to use a condom the first time they had sex…
She was too shy to talk to him at first and was admiring him from afar. She couldn’t take her eyes off that familiar dimple in his left…
