He Didn't Have an Explanation, Was He Embarrassed?

"i had pretty much gone through the whole process of being angry and sad about it, and all his emotions were done with by the time i got him back in my life," she writes. "We had a terrific secret laughing fit at the funeral, which was just like something that would have happened and in fourth grade." She says he didn't have an explanation for not calling her after 15 years but did give one: 'Sometimes you move on to a new phase of life' The essay is based on what psychologists call cognitive closure.