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It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

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Maybe that's what love is-counting the bandages until someone says, 'Enough'.

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We all know who you are, Mr. Coughlin. Famous Yankee gangster. Friend of the colonel. It would be safer for a man to swim into the middle of the ocean...more

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I will not dream anymore, you said. I will not set myself up for the pain. But then your team made the playoffs, or you saw a movie, or a billboard gl...more

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Angie was where most of me began and all of me ended.

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But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.