They’d been dating about three years. He proposed, she accepted.

A year later she meets this charming, handsome, devil-may-care, roguish guy. You know… the one who got around. “He dates everybody,” her best friend told her. “Stay away from him.”

She suddenly remembers what was like to be single. To be a wild, unabashed flirt. To dance barefoot in long skirts. Suddenly, she has serious doubts about the whole notion of marriage. Monogomy wasn’t for her. She left her fiancee. She cried in her new lover’s saying, “It’s the most awful thing I’ve ever done. But I had to do it.”

Eight months later, he proposes. They get married a year afterward, culminating a whirlwind romance. They’re married for about five years. When times are good, their marriage is good. When times are bad, they struggle. Just like married people do.

Then, five years later, out of the blue, she said, “I can’t be married anymore. I’m sorry.” And in less than 24 hours, she was sleeping with someone else.

Now, it’s two years after her divorce. She’s engaged again. To a guy she’s known less than a year.

And for the first time — for the very first time — he’s comfortable thinking that the divorce may not have been his fault.

* * *

Make It Rain

She took all my money
And my best friend
You know the story
Here it comes again
I have no pride
I have no shame
You gotta make it rain

Since you gone
Deep inside it hurts
I’m just another sad
Guest on this dark earth
I want to believe in the
Mercy of the world again
Make it rain

The nite’s too quiet
Stretched out alone
I need the whip of thunder
And the wind’s dark moan
I’m not Able, I’m just Caine
Open up the heavens
And make it rain

I’m close to heaven
Crushed at the gate
They sharpen their knives
On my mistakes
What she’s done you can’t
Give it a name
Just make it rain

Without your love
Without your kiss
Hell can’t burn me
More than this
I’m burning up all this pain
Open up the heavens
Make it rain

I’m born to trouble
I’m born to fate
Inside a promise I can’t escape
It’s the same old world
But nothing’s the same
Make it rain