My Scent Will Go On

(It’s 1997, and my boyfriend and I have just watched ‘Titanic’)

Boyfriend: “If I were there, I’d do whatever it took to keep you alive.”

(I am really touched by the comment. Later that evening, we are having left-over pizza on the steps in front of our apartment building. Suddenly, there is a rustling in the shrubs and out pokes a skunk who is attracted by the pizza. I start to slowly get up to go into the building, but the boyfriend is already inside with the door shut. He graciously let me in.)

Me: “My heart will go on, my ass!”

Boyfriend: “Well, you were dawdling.”