I stumbled across this story and I loved some of the sentences, very powerful in fact, like the following one:

Hence my take on an old saw―if I didn't have bad memories, I'd have no memories at all.

or this one...

Seems to me when a man's running away from his past, there's always a woman mixed up in it somewhere―that's the only descriptor I'll use for Marianne.

I enjoyed it enough to go for more.... I'm reading you!

Thanks for sharing your story!