runaway bride

"The report from Georgia investigators said she broke off an earlier engagement to another man, and — even though she had been in a relationship with Mason since August 2004 — she kept "I love you" text messages on her cell phone from another man she dated in 2003...'

And what happens to deleted text messages, emails, erased answering messages from old loves? Do they float up into some hovering cyber joseph cornell museum, get filed in some digital underworld like cocteau's orphee? Would erasing those words have made her less pathological, more equipped to be a "wife"? Less of a narcissist? I don't trust the clean slate. I spend too much time in the unconscious to believe a man who says he's shut the door on the past. I'd rather admit there's a lineage in the bed, dust of old lovers in your hair, your chest, the cells that helped get you goldenly here.