When they say 'you can't go home again' I never realized they meant you could go home but everything will be different. As for me, well after getting out of the service and then bumming around LA for another couple of years with nothing to show for it, I decided to go back to my hometown. The city was the same, old and boring but my old friends had changed. They all had married or moved, hell even my old job had moved as the factory had closed down.
I was sitting in my old room looking through the phone book I had used since high school when I came across Mary's name. God she was a sexy number I think I had a hard on the whole time we were together. We had dated a little after school and although she had blown me off for another guy, she told me she had really liked me. Rather than call I figured I'd just show up at her door and if I got lucky I might worm my way back into her life.
After knocking, I started to feel silly, what if she didn't even live here anymore. I just started to turn around to leave when the door opened.
"Johnny, is that you?"
She threw herself into my arms,
"Come on in, I swear I didn't think you'd ever come back to this old dump of a town."
"Wow Mary you sure look pregnant, who the lucky father?"