It wasn’t what it was supposed to be. It shouldn’t have happened that way. We were supposed to be each others’ grand amour<\/i> or something akin to it… I’ll confess I had more than just friendship wrapped up in my regard when we talked across the table in that Friendly’s in Rochester after church on that snow-covered Sunday.<\/p>\n
I guess I just wasn’t what she was looking for. Could I have even been at that point in both our lives? Doubtful, even if we lived closer together–she was intensely busy with her ministry and her friends. I would have been an impostor, an outsider trying to elbow his way in.<\/p>\n
Still, I think about it a lot. More than it warrants, really. But I really did fall in love with her.<\/p>\n
See, how can you say that? How can you say that when the percentage of emails and letters that she actually replied to was dismally small?<\/p>\n
I don’t know what it was. But… ahh. I still think about you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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