kerouac says

i just realized this:

i don't know about you, but i pretty much spent my twenties trying not to get herpes. by the grace of god and at least a little good sense, successfully. and now i'm thirty, and now i'm getting married, and barring events of such scariness i can't stop to ponder them,

i am never getting herpes.

i am done. i can just cross that one right off.

this is right up there with never again having to see my face in the mirror the morning after a break-up.