To the girls I've loved

Julio Iglesias and Willy Nelson. The Latin crooner and country music legend were an unlikely pairing, but the duo performed one of lover-dom's prolific anthems.

- Hein Kaiser

I happened to hear the track again, after yonks, and it brought back memories of dates gone wrong. It's not a notch on the bedpost kind of recount, but a hit parade of idiosyncrasies that led most of us to the path of permanence and finding the one.

There's a song for each of these dates. I will never forget my first and last date with Lisa. Not her real name.

We met in a bar called Ratz in Melville and after one tequila too many we swapped numbers and a week later, sat in some restaurant; I forget where.