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I thought I had already hit bottom?

  It has been a minute since I have honestly had the time to sit down and write a new post.  My last post had found us back from Spring Break, and me feeling light and happy, even joyous. But all of those feelings were undone simply by receiving a letter in the mail.  I will be the first to admit that going on dates again ... twenty some years after your last one has been a lesson in how things have changed.  I never felt the need to tell my friends where I was going, share my location, or fear having someone pick me up at my house in 2000.  I am, by nature, a trusting person, so to now be in a dating space in 2025, I have to remember that times have changed.  I now have kids to protect as well as myself.   So imagine my surprise when I received a letter in March from a man I saw twice in February.  It was my fault that he had my address- I felt safe in having him pick me up for our first date.  But in hindsight, that was an error in my judge...