Sometimes ‘out of the blue’ means it comes from a logical but unlikely source. Today in the frameshop my sales rep from one of the moulding companies came in and since we’re the same age and hadn’t talked in a while we caught up on each other’s life. He paused, asked me where I’d come from and when I said ‘Derby’ he said he wondered if I’d know his best friend for many years, the best man at his wedding, his name was ‘Mitch…’
"Ma—" I finished. "Yes!" he said.
Mitch was my first boyfriend. In kindergarten.
One of these days I’ve got to somehow check if Daniel Sa— who moved into town a couple of years ago was one of my boyfriends too.
The past, it comes back to haunt you, you know?
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
So very much it does.