yet it was never completely what i wanted,
was never quite what the story-books promised;
i never got to live the fairy tale
and after a while i sort of gave up on it;
(not completely, mind you,
but... mostly.)
i decided that they had lied to me,
Shakespeare, Debbie Gibson, Molly Ringwald
(everyone)
they had tried to sell me this heavenly "love" that didn't exist;
(i had looked all over and not found it, after all,
it must not exist!)
that is what i decided
in my "mature wisdom".

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