Starting a Memoir Might Be the Last Thing on Your Mind

But it shouldn't be

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I’d been overseas for 3 weeks and had made the mistake of breaking up with my girlfriend over the phone. We were going to talk when I returned, but now I realized it would be a one-sided conversation, and that she was having the last word.

I staggered out of the back seat of the taxi and stood frozen as I took in a scene t…