My First Broken Heart

Frogs, jealousy and 4th grade somethings

The physical and emotional reactions that I just experienced simply by unexpectedly seeing a photograph that I thought I would never see again, were profound. The clarity of the story it pulled from my memory was as though I have told it a million times when in fact, I have never written it down or spoken about it. The memory is so sad that my mind put it away for 4 decades. I have thought about it in passing countless times but seeing the photo made it all come flooding back. This is the story of the first time my heart was broken.