It’s hardly a fairy-tale ending, but then again, there’s more than one reason to hunt down an old flame. Sometimes you have to go back just to make sure you were right to leave in the first (and second, and third) place.

Emma Taylor and Lorelei Sharkey are the authors of the new A-Z guides Em & Lo’s Rec Sex and Em & Lo’s Sex Toy.

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