Endings

I just sent a card, signed with love, to my ex's ex-wife.

It's not as strange as it may sound. She's never been a problem to me. She and he had a child together and live in the same town, so they've maintained a friendly (not close) relationship, as grown-ups try to do. They were married a long time ago. She ended it after recognizing that she was a lesbian. In fact, at the very same time that he and I started dating back in the 90s, she started dating her wife. Now the two of them are separating.

Yet she looked beyond her own problems to mail me a short but heartfelt and handwritten sympathy note, signed with love. How unexpectedly kind. So I sent her one in return.

No more unhappy endings, please—not for me and not for anyone.