I can't help but think that if Natelet heard about the prior estrangement between big Nate and future wife, he'd be like "yeah that sounds like us."

And that would make Nate terribly uncomfortable.

Having your past self around: you can't hide from hard truths, cowboy.

Even teen Nate who is not super experienced in the way of girls can recognize that him leaving his marriage is in-character.

Penpoints Incidentally, while I don't expect it to come up super quickly between Nate and Sam, I am really looking forward to Nate eventually telling him about it.

b/c that's going to recontextualize a lot of things about Nate's lie and Elena's reaction to it and Nate's reaction to Sam's lie