“I Made Sure to Get Very Drunk Before Walking Down the Aisle”

“I can tell that I gave him the haircut he is sporting. I can remember how I used to cut his hair — leaving it long in the front and close to the head in the back. I would cut it in the dining room of our apartment, while he sat in a chair, a hand towel draped around his shoulders. When I would shape his bangs, I’d often pause to kiss him on the lips, just before moving to the sides of his head, where I’d thin out the hair that sat over the arms of his glasses.” — It’s hard to pick an excerpt from the sad and lovely “Snapshots From a Rock ‘n Roll Marriage” [and Divorce] by Denise Grollmus, former wife of the Black Keys’ Patrick Carney, but the haircut part kills me. Ahh, the whole thing kills me.