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"You'll just never love anyone as much as you loved her, will you?" Sheila's bright blue eyes are full of tears, yet she doesn't look sad, more exhausted. I take a long drag from my cigarette and paused to think for a second. 


"Maybe, one day," I replied. She didn't look surprised by this. She then wiped a stray tear from her cheek. 


"Well Harry, we can keep kidding ourselves or we can let go and try to be happy eleswere. I'm sure if I hadn't brought this up you would have been too polite to tell me. We could have kept kidding ourselves forever, but it's not fair. On either of us. And I don't blame you either," she kissed my forehead one last time and whispered "I'm just sorry I'm not her."


I watched her walk away and then I whispered back, "me too."

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