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November 18, 2005

Ex and the Married Girl

From Alesia, who LOVES Lani’s new book!!

Wow! The holiday season and first grade talent shows and blown-up computers in Rotterdam all equal a slow week at The Literary Chicks! And I feel especially guilty because this is the week to celebrate Lani’s new release, EX AND THE SINGLE GIRL, which is fanfreakingtastic!! I mean, hello? A book with Penis Teflon as a theme???

How could it miss?

Lani is too humble to go all braggy about her own cute self, but she has been gathering up a veritable cornucopia (yes, vocab words test today for Science Boy!) for EX. Check them out at her website! And, you know, buy the book!! 

I’ve been thinking about the Ex topic a lot, to figure out what to write in this blog, and then I saw an episode of MEDIUM, during which the husband (and don’t you LOVE him??) runs into an old girlfriend and poor Allison gets a flash of Joe and old girlfriend doing the nasty.

Live and in color. Can we all collectively pause for a gross-out moment?

Anyway, in the inevitable blow-up that follows (he neglected to mention he’d been naked with said chick; Allison didn’t appreciate it), it turns out that they’ve told each other about all of their exes. And, well, details, I guess.

Now, I’m all for honesty, but I gotta admit I’m against this. Completely. Navy Guy and I are coming up on ten years together, and I’m happily ignorant of most of the details about the women he dated before me. Other than one he actually met and one that was rather mandatory disclosure, since he had the unpleasant habit of popping up, he’s in the same state of bliss about the details of my past romances.

Why? I know there are diametrically opposing views on this one. One view (that I’m rabidly against!) is the “we’re in LURVE, we should tell all.” Well, okay. We’re very much in love, but why does that mean I need to hear about the girl he dated in college? Or why should he hear gory details about me and the drunken toga party? (If anyone who knows me in any way is reading this, make that the hypothetically drunken alleged toga party. Hey, it was college. There was pure grain alcohol with fruit. I’m SO not to blame.)

We love each other NOW. We have for ten years. We may not have been each other’s first love, but we’ll definitely be each other’s last (and only!). I’m all for some memories remaining just that – for exes to stay in the memory box, or as pictures in an old scrapbook. Something to look back on when we’re old and gray and want to organize a drunken toga party at the nursing home.

TOGA, TOGA, TOGA!!!
Alesia, older and (hopefully!) wiser

This blog was brought to you by Ex and The Single Girl, Lani's newest
release about what family that won't mind their own business, exes that
won't go away, and the true love that gets caught in-between.

Posted by Alesia at 4:08 PM | Comments (2)

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Posted by: Cee Cee at November 18, 2005 8:44 PM

Posted by: Alesia Holliday at November 28, 2005 11:49 AM