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Continuing on the ex-girlfriend thread, I am about to have lunch with an ex-ex-girlfriend (not a double negative, more like two girlfriends ago, like an ex-girlfriend once removed, or a previous future-ex-Mrs. Tax, but I digress).

About three years ago, I allowed this girl to send my life into a self-pitying tailspin for about 6 months, and I haven't seen her again in that time. She owed me a load of money, I never gave her back some of her stuff--a spiteful split. Apart from her obvious physical accoutrements, there wasn't much appeal in this girl anyway. (I remember twisting her arm to read Madame Bovary, it being so difficult to get her to lift her attentions from fashion magazines)

But she has been hounding me by email to meet her for some time now. Though I suspect the game for her may not be so straight-forward as two old friends getting re-acquainted (she keeps dropping not-so-subtle hints about some guy wanting to whisk her away to live in Europe and she would like for me to "send her off"!?) I have confidence in myself that my tastes in women have progressed beyond anything that she could satisfy, and that all of that pain will remain but a fleeting memory. Given the imminence of this kind of showdown a couple of years back, I might go out of my way to prove how much better off I am now without her, probably only to confirm less than that, and ultimately revisit those sad desperate times when you feel a loved one slipping away. But with time, distance, and a little wisdom, a subconscious element of forgiveness enters the picture, and I can certainly entertain her whim of fancy, and probably much more successfully convey my immunity to the same. Besides, for all I know, she drove a lot of miles just to be here in Chicago to see me again, and what harm could it do?

Any opinions or predictions? I am interested in your thoughts. And as immortalized by Luke's buddy Daack in the assault on the Death Star "Red-Five, I'm going in!"