Why Writers Should Journal More Than Anyone Else
What a Random Message from My Ex of 20 Years Taught Me
You never really want—or expect—to wake up to a Facebook message from your ex from 20+ years ago that says something like, “Hey. What’s your current email address? I was cleaning out my big metal building in our hometown and found something I want to email you.”
Especially not when you say, “What is it?” and they refuse to say, stating that you should have the, uh, pleasure of being as startled by it as they were when they ran across it.
“Oh boy,” I sent back.
What in the world could possibly be so important after 20 years that he’d have to track me down on Facebook to email me something?
Was it something I wrote way back when?
Something I drew or painted?
An old recording of my poem that he turned into a song and performed?
Reader, I will show you. It was this:
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