This, That, and the Other

I am unofficially participating in this year’s A to Z Challenge. My theme this year is girlfriends.

C is for Carolyn B.

I was late for my urban planning class and was running up the stairwell of the building when I almost crashed into a girl who was in the same class but seemed totally unfazed about being late. I later learned that this girl, who was also working on a master’s degree in healthcare administration, came from a wealthy family with strong political ties and foreign service experience in the diplomatic corps. She was worldly, wicked smart, and very pretty. What she ever saw in me I’ll never know.

We soon became friends, often going out for dinner or drinks after the late afternoon class. After about a month of being friends, she invited me over to her place for dinner. She lived in a beautiful home in Potomac, Maryland that her parents, who were overseas at the time, used when they were not working at some embassy somewhere around the globe, so Carolyn, an only child, had the entire house to herself most of the time.

She cooked me a delicious meal and then we had some wine and shared a joint and that was the night our relationship transitioned from being friends to being lovers. Carolyn was high maintenance and our on-again, off-again relationship lasted about two years. I remember the lyrics to the song “Over My Head” by Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie describing it perfectly.

You can take me to paradise
And then again you can be as cold ice
I'm over my head (over my head)
Oh, but it sure feels nice

You can take me anytime you like
I'll be around if you think you might love me, baby (over my head)
And hold me tight

Your mood is like a circus wheel
You're changing all the time
Sometimes I can't help but feel
That I'm wasting all of my time

(Over my head)

Your mood is like a circus wheel
You're changing all the time
Sometimes I can't help but feel
That I'm wasting all of my time

I think I'm looking on the dark side
But everyday you hurt my pride
I'm over my head (over my head)
Oh, but it sure feels nice
I'm over my head (over my head)
But it sure feels nice
I'm over my head (over my head)
But it sure feels nice

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