{"id":166,"date":"2004-03-24T06:06:16","date_gmt":"2004-03-24T11:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-03-26T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2006-03-26T15:01:17","slug":"virtual-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/virtual-memories","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/a><\/em> last night.<\/p>\n

If you ever tried to forget her\/him, you oughtta see it. If you ever wanted to call her\/him, months after it’s all over, you oughtta see it. If you ever let failed love for someone make you put your life in a holding pattern, you oughtta see it.<\/p>\n

[I wrote some pretty lengthy personal stuff after that paragraph, but I decided that this place just isn’t the forum for that. I’ve tried to be pretty open about my personal life on this blog, but there are a lot of things that I haven’t mentioned, out of privacy considerations and for other reasons (the fact that I have a new girlfriend is one of them). You can write me about reactions to love and its ending, or hit the comments link to start a conversation about it.]<\/em> <\/p>\n

Update: Go ape!<\/a> Yet again! (Thanks to Arts & Letters<\/a> for the link)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind last night. If you ever tried to forget her\/him, you oughtta see it. If you ever wanted to call her\/him, months after it’s all over, you oughtta see it. If you ever let failed love for someone make you put your life in a holding pattern, you … <\/p>\n

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