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You know I want to be a directos, but you could never truly see the movies in my head and that, Ed, is why we broke up.

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I'd ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you. And I did. But that right there was why it was doomed.

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I'm nothing, not a single thing. The only particle I had, the only tiny thing raising me up, is that I was Ed Slaterton's girlfriend, loved by you for...more

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I'm writing it in a letter, the whole truth of why it happened. And the truth is that I goddamn loved you so much.

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I'm a lunatic wandering around for scraps, I'm like every single miserable moron I've scorned, and pretended I didn't recognize. I'm all of them, ever...more

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There were a million things, everything, I didn't know. I was stupid, the official descriptive phrase for happy. I took this thing I'm giving you back...more

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We thought we had time. I waved but couldn't answer, because I was finally letting myself grin as wide as I'd wanted all afternoon, all evening, every...more

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Here we are at the bottom, almost empty. It's like confetti, these dried remnants you find in the street for a party no one invited you to. But they u...more

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You winked, took the change. I should have seen it, Ed, as a sign that you were unreliable. Instead, I saw it as a sign of charming, which is why I di...more

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I gasped and pointed the way. I gave you an adventure, Ed, right in front of you but you never saw it until I showed you, and that's why we broke up.

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Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.