She is not with anybody, and she was for about two years, with a man named Everett who I met twice and liked, and it ended for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and I want that stated plainly because of what I am about to say.

We did not get back together.

I know what shape this story looks like it is going to be.

I have had it suggested to me directly by four different people, one of whom was a stranger at a wedding, and it is suggested with such confidence that I have come to understand it is not really a question about us at all.

It is a wish that damage be reversible.