"South Pacific" has returned; a reunion concert just occurred. The novelist Lorrie Moore has confessed that she sometimes watches and rewatches "This Nearly Was Mine" (when she should be working). This is the gold-standard example of a "rearview mirror" song. It's everything you wish you could say to your ex--but you can't, because your ex is receding in the distance (you see her via rearview mirror). People say that a breakup is especially hard because you're mourning both (a) the loss of routines and (b) the loss of dreams, things you didn't actually have but could enjoy anticipating . It's (b) that inspires the bridge of Richard Rodgers's song. So clear and deep are my fancies Of things I wish were true; I'll keep remembering evenings I wish I'd spent with you. I'll keep remembering kisses From lips I'll never own-- And all the lovely adventures That we have never known. In the wake of loss, there is only rumi...