Once upon a time - in the inexorable destiny of surname alphabetic order - did she appear in the desk in front of his each and every first grade school day, an inexplicable marvel in stockings faithfully solid red, green, blue, or yellow of hue.
That he learned a single thing that year defies explanation.
Little - absolutely zero, in fact - did he know he would eventually divorce someone else for her - to the point of purchasing a home with her en route to barely tolerating her mentally dense offspring fathered by an obnoxious other.
They, too, would split to subsequently never communicate again.
Such is the sarcasm of the cruel and unusual realm sometimes referred to as "mind only".