Flexible Emotional Rigidity

Photograph by Nzonda Kenneth

Or how I lost two self-imposed enemies.

This won’t work, she said.

She told me I didn’t have charisma. That’s how she dumped me. She was cute, intelligent and mean — in a nice way. Or that’s what I thought the first time we kissed.

She took a couple of seconds to look for the right word — that’s what she came up with- charisma.

I…