In his contribution to “Things I’ve Learned From Women Who’ve Dumped Me,” UW-Madison alum Ben Karlin writes about his old girlfriend, Jill, whom he fell hard and fast for “in the waning light of life in a college town after you’re done with college.”
He reminisces about how they “walked hand in hand through the farmers’ market, envious of no one, living in the goddamn now.”
One question slowly built in his mind, he writes: “What if this is the person I never run out of falling in love with?”
Still, it’s not a happy tale, and he hints about this early on.