"Hello."
"Good afternoon. Why have you come to see me today?"
"Because I had to."
"I see. So tell me... what's bothering you."
"I lose my breath because I can't believe that this is all I am going to be."
"What is wrong with what you are?"
"I'm not loved."
"You have your friends, your family-"
"Come on, you know what I mean. The devil-may-care-what-the-world-thinks, passionate, can't-breathe-without-each-other, catch-you-when-you-fall-kind-of-love."
"Ah."
"I don't even know how to begin to find it in this world."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I prefer living in my books. I like how that makes me feel. And then I'm just disappointed."
"And how does that make you feel?"
"It makes me feel sometimes, like I am completely unreasonable to say, that in a time of smart phones, where Apple isn't a fruit, where attention spans are not more than five minutes and where internet pornography is what tides us over till the next relationship comes along...I am still looking for the kind of love Austen wrote of."
"I disagree."
"Why?"
"Because I have a feeling you are the last reasonable person left on this planet."
