Beautiful picture, bad comment, hurt feelings, bad decisions

This picture was taken to be a Christmas present for the guy I loved. Instead it almost destroyed a relationship that was meant to be.
August 1965 I left for college in California. I left behind my boyfriend to finish his last year of highschool. We had been together for almost 2 years. Our only place of conflict was my hair. He likes my hair shoulder length to bra strap length. But otherwise we were totally meant for each other.
My husband was going through his drawer looking for something this morning and found this picture and then asked me a blunt question. "Was my remark about your hair what caused you to let your roommate talk you into dating Kurt?". I took the picture and looked at it thinking back 60 years. I remembered taking the picture which was going to be a Christmas present for my boyfriend. I had refused to date this guy my roommate was trying to get me to date.
I had mailed this black and white photo to my 17 year old boyfriend to keep in his wallet. I had a 10x14 color picture I was going to give him at Christmas. I was shattered when he asked me what the hell did you do to your hair. My roommate convinced me to go on a date with Kurt.
I gave the color picture to my mother and broke up with my boyfriend between Christmas and New years.
I didn't call my boyfriend when I came home for the summer and worked all summer but in August I called my boyfriend. It felt right and we went out 5-6 before time to leave for college. It felt so right to be together and I suggested we do it, lost our virginity to each other. About 3 weeks later he called found out I was a Kurt's house and we were done.
In January 1967 Kurt got sent to Vietnam. I had failed my third semester and was home. Kurt postponed our wedding until he came back from Nam.
In February I called my boyfriend. I broke my engagement and in December my boyfriend became my husband.
My mother died,we have the color picture, my husband told me this morning it was a beautiful picture. Yes something beautiful and a misspoken word almost destroyed what was supposed to be. Caused a lot of regrets.