"Almost-love Stories" Inspired by The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss:

Almost-love Stories

If my life was a fictional story,

I’d already be living my happily ever after.

As a real girl, however,

all I have are almost-love stories.

The best friend in high school who gave me

my first and only Valentine’s Day rose;

the boy I met on a camping trip

and turned out to have terminal cancer;

the boy who talked with me for hours,

then disappeared at the end of the summer;

the motorcycle driver who taught me

to love riding without holding on -- especially in the rain;

the boy who skipped two days of work

while I explored his city on vacation;

the flirt who asked for my number

along with that of every other female coworker I have.

All these almost-love stories

moved on without me as the leading character.

One of these days,

I’ll meet a boy who becomes my whole world,

and we’ll write an entire story together.


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