Livid History

How could you? appealed the

teen to her grandmother,

responding with swift dismay

to an anecdote of reminiscence;

two very young people who

intertwined their lives until

one decided they should part,

the other dissolved in grief

until on reconsideration their 

young union was renewed

and pursued into a long, shared

future.  Well, said the grandmother,

yes it was cruel and he suffered

but that was a long time ago.

The girl would have none of that,

snapping back her disbelief:

But that's my grandfather!