Pellegrino and I dated in high school. For reasons still not clear to me, we fell out of favor with eachother (after two years of dating). Looking back, I think it was because he was too busy working, or something like that. And that's when I met Nelson, dumped Pell and the rest, as they say, was history. Years later, Jayleigh met Pellegrino's baby son, who was named "Joey"... my nickname.
Yes, I've always felt the regret... knew that Pell was as confused as me. But then, we make our choices, move forward, and go on with our lives. So why did I have a lengthy dream about Pellegrino last night? Why did we talk about it, what went wrong, and how to avoid those mistakes in the future? I kept saying "the key is communication... we didn't talk to one-another and needed to do that, to be brutally honest"...
My thought is that I stopped running, finally. Stopped running from the past, from my exes, and from my own brain. So Pell and I sat on a bench, in a park, with snow all around (even though it was really hot outside), chatting about what went wrong, what went right, that while we could never go back... we can certainly move forward and not make those same mistakes again.
After I woke up, I called Othello and told him about my dream. He laughed that I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel, going back to the high-school boyfriends and working out the problems in my dreams. But the fact is, after almost 20 years, I'm dealing with issues that have been hiding out, that I run from.
As Pellegrino was standing up to walk out of my dreams, he said "I'm turning 21 tonight... I'm turning 21 tonight, Dorothy, I'm turning 21 TONIGHT"
How odd.
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