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Summer has never been the same since the great heartbreak of ’84
At 17, I dreamed of impressing my first girlfriend with my knowledge of literature. Of course it all went laughably wrong
TL;DR
- The author's perception of long, hot summer days was negatively impacted by a relationship event in 1984.
- He attempted to impress his first girlfriend by taking her to visit a Thomas Hardy monument.
- The monument visited was dedicated to Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, not the author.
- The author's girlfriend broke up with him that same day.
- The experience became a symbol of misplaced romantic and literary ambitions.