among the various reasons men have broken up with me which remain various and unexplained as most everything in recent years has tended to do and of which i could create many lists with witty or bitter or stupidly thoughtless (or even unthinkable) titles. there are these facts that remain: habitual smoker (especially when pissed, which is often); doesn't know how to ski. i am glad to have been quit. for them. and, most especially, for me.