Annulled
Like the fool that I am, I Googled myself.
Very nice that the sites show up. That was really all I wanted to know. But how peculiar that the third item on the list was our engagement announcement. Not the wedding announcement, but the engagement – Kathleen got in twice. Of course it doesn’t make sense now; the Times doesn’t even think of publishing engagement notices. We wouldn’t make it by today’s criteria.
What I “love” about the story is the absence of “previous.” The way the article is written, it sounds as though my marriage to Kathleen was annulled before I left the church. The Times used to write, “Mr X’s prior marriage ended in divorce,” or somesuch. “Annulled” is very Catholic. I am one one of the very few men with a child from the first marriage who got to marry in the Church a second time. The marriage to C may have been canceled, but Ms G wasn’t.
I don’t think that my gay friends truly appreciate my hardships! They never take me to lunch.