After over three months of being able to make out with Zack without any itchiness, I convinced myself that I wasn’t allergic to him anymore.  Nevermind that I’d been taking ALLERGY PILLS for the EXACT AMOUNT OF TIME for which I’ve been able to itchlessly canoodle with him.  I somehow managed to convinced myself that the Allergy Pills had nothing to do with it.  Sometimes people overcome allergies by regular, incremental exposure to an allergen.  Surely, I thought, I had overcome my allergy to Zack–or at least that’s what I must have been thinking when I absentmindedly stopped taking the allergy pills for a couple of days in a row. 

Bad News: I’m still allergic to Zack.  Also, I’m an idiot. 
Good News: The allergy pills really do work. Magical.