Roads Not Taken: How I Knew It Was Over

Dr. Thomas J. West III
7 min readMay 11, 2020

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We were on a drive in the southern part of New York State when I knew it was over. I’d mentioned that one of my colleagues had gotten a job in Canada, which led to you asking me what would happen if I were to get one. Would we have to get married, you wondered, so that you could move to Canada with me? It was a good question, even if the odds of me getting a job out of the country were minimal; I wouldn’t feel…

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Dr. Thomas J. West III

Ph.D. in English | Film and TV geek | Lover of fantasy and history | Full-time writer | Feminist and queer | Liberal scold and gadfly