20 year old me fell in love with 18 year old Pete and I bought him the Mellon Collie cassette tape at Sam Goody.  Pete didn’t return the intensity of my affection and after a couple of years of on & off dates and friendship, we parted ways.  Fast forward, 2006.  He finds me on Myspace.  He’d seen 50+ Pumpkins concerts and gotten 4 SP tattoos during our time apart.  We fell madly in love and got married.  I then gifted him an original Mellon Collie vinyl as a symbol of our destiny.  His greatest loves are me, our children and Smashing Pumpkins, and it all began at a Sam Goody record store in 1995.  Without Mellon Collie there would be no “us”.