forgetting

I want to take this opportunity to say hello … and goodbye to my friends. If you\’ve been wondering where I\’ve been lately, as my pal Mickey did in a phone call last week, I\’ve got a new girlfriend (let\’s call her Alison), and I won\’t be seeing you around much anymore.

Let\’s be clear: I love my friends. They\’ve stuck with me through thick and thin, and now I\’ve dropped them like hot potatoes and consigned them to the ash heap of history without so much as a fare-thee-well, all because of a broad. They\’ve done nothing to deserve such shoddy treatment, but I\’ve always been one of those guys who meets a woman and then disappears for a while. I take a powder. I never claimed any different. No one stuck a gun to my head.