When driving in my car, and I’m having a technical (#!#&$@) with my phone, I will pop in a CD. I have a collection of eclectic stuff… some from my old collection and some from thrift stores… some so bizarre that I swear someone has broken into my car and left them.  

So I started listening to this one disc… was one of those writable discs that has no label on it. I listened to it… and it stayed in the player… longer than the regular rotation… because it had a lot of really nice songs that took me to a sensation of a time-gone-by feeling. There’s one song in particular that made me think about (name). We did have a deep bond and I did love her dearly. Like me, she has her quirks and we didn’t fit together because our quirks were too offsetting to be solved by passion.

One evening I stopped the car… and unexpectedly the CD pops out of the player. I go to wipe it off because it looks a bit dusty and I noticed some very faint green magic marker writing on the disk. It said ‘love mix from (name) hmmm… I just started laughing… and then later threw it out the window.