My Online Date Rejected Me. When He Asked Me Out Again 17 Years Later, I Was Shocked By What He Said.
April 13, 2025
It was a song that hooked me. “Boots of Spanish Leather,” a lesser-known Bob Dylan track I’d been playing on my Volkswagen tape deck obsessively — the Nanci Griffith version. I mimicked Griffith’s twang and bounced in and out of singing with her. It’s a song of love and the end of love.
I liked both parts — love’s rising and falling. Maybe because even at 30, I had felt love’s…
