Years after [Carina](https://www.reddit.com/r/gonewildstories/comments/9toqov/the_night_i_got_incredibly_lucky_and_lost_my/?st=JOJ2HJRT&sh=f54a66a3) and I broke up, I was made aware of the Book of Faces. Normally I shun things that people flock to in droves, but I was shamed into joining due to the fact that the person who brought it to my attention did so because they were looking for me and found my father, who I’m named after. The humiliation of my dad being onto something cool before me could not go unanswered.
As many people on the Book are wont to do, I started looking up old acquaintances and, on a whim, found Carina. We’d lost contact after we broke up five years prior, and she’d been on my mind ever since. I sent her a message and we reconnected again. Soon afterwards, I underwent surgery, an outpatient procedure that laid me up for three weeks. It was right before my birthday, so the next week Carina came by with a combination Happy Birthday/Get Well Soon gift basket, which was really sweet of her.
A month later, I was healed enough to go back to work, and more importantly, handle some unfinished business with Carina. Five years had made us both wiser, and me more experienced, so when she came over, there was no doubt in my mind what was about to happen.