The One That Got Away?

We all, I would assume, have that one person in our romantic past and think, could they have been the one that got away.

Yep, I have that person. Her name is Kimberly Ann Latta and I dated her in college at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She lived in Granville Towers and I met her at a friend’s apartment in Chancellor’s Square. She was from Durham, NC and I really liked her parents, Ted and Sue.

I have thought about her through the years but have always resisted looking her up or tracking her down. Well, in a fit of depression I made the mistake of doing a bit of Internet sleuthing today.

Looks like she has been married for years so I will leave her alone and I am not going to include his name or her married name. All I can hope for is that she is happily married and wildly happy in her life in general. That would make me happy, she is a wonderful woman and deserves to be happy.

Kim is beautiful and smart with a wicked, cynical sense of humor. I really wish I had not been such an immature…well, idiot sums it up. I know there is no guarantee we would have made it but I really wish I had given the relationship a legitimate chance. And, yes, to sum it all up, she deserved better than me and I can only assume that her husband is a much better man than I am.

I thought when I started to write this piece that I was going to have some great insight and wisdom on the subject.

Nope, so let me wrap this up by reiterating that I simply hope that she is happy.

Thanks Kim for just giving me a chance.