Things Change

Finbar just sent me this article. I want to cry.

You see, this is one of the only places left from our old haunts. The coffee shop where we met? Moved and changed so much that it may as well be gone. The restuarant where we had our first date? Technically still there, but also changed so substantially (and not for the better) that it may as well be gone. Vienna Cafe, where we went after dinner on our first date, where we shared one of the most romantic kisses of my life, where we went almost every weekend, where we used to sit on the patio to look at the stars-- shut down years ago. The pasta restaurant we used to walk to from the house he shared with SGD and Buddha? Replaced by a tacky sushi bar.

We can't walk down memory lane when we go back to visit my family because memory lane is gone. We used to go to Kaldi's late on Saturday nights to drink Irish Coffees and read the trashy vintage paperbacks on the floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. No more...