Diet Coke

I've been drinking coke from as far back as I can remember.. I love it, and didn't think that ANYTHING would come between me, and what can only be described as my first love..
The other day, someone asked me to try a diet coke... Under some amount of duress, I took the can and started to drink it..
It tasted like swill. I honestly felt a little nausea after drinking it.. BUT.. while I was drinking this, I did happen to notice that diet coke contains NO calories.. I was always under the assumption that it contained about half the calories of regular coke, so I was always like "whatever"..
But the prospect of getting a drink of coke with NO calories was a little hard to digest (pun intended)..
Anyway.. by the end of the can, it didn't taste all that bad, and I could understand what they mean by it being an aquired taste..
Now.. armed with this new knowledge, I had another can the next day, and another the day after.. and for the past ten days or so, I've been enjoying a can of Diet coke while I study..
Now.. While I was out to lunch today, I ordered a regular coke (I actually didn't order a "Regular coke", I just ordered a "coke".. force of habit, you see)..
The coke came to the table.. (it wasn't a magic can of coke.. the waitress brought it)
and it tasted like SWILL! I coudn't believe it.. I just could not drink it because it tasted AWFUL..

Now this is a potentially upsetting situation..

Ten days of drinking diet coke has effectively ruined 20 odd years of drinking sugar loaded regular coke.
I suppose this is a good thing, and I should look on the bright side.. But I refuse to.. I will look upon this as the disaster that it is, for I have parted ways with my first love, only to replace her with a skinnier, younger variant.
the coke is dead.. long live the coke!