Anyone ever feel this way about an ex?

[raccoon]

(In Dickens' LITTLE DORRIT, Arthur Clennam sees the love of his youth for the first time in twenty years.)


Clennam's eyes no sooner fell upon the subject of his old passion than it shivered and broke to pieces.

(snip)

Flora, always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath; but that was not much. Flora, whom he had left a lily, had become a peony; but that was not much. Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly. That was much. Flora, who had been spoiled and artless long ago, was determined to be spoiled and artless now. That was a fatal blow.

http://www.classicbookshelf.com/library/charles_dickens/little_dorrit/14/