An Excerpt:
"No matter how hard I tried to forget him I couldn’t. I felt as if my heart was weighed down, chained down to the ground, held there tightly by him, by him, the man who didn’t want me. Let me go. That’s all I wanted, was to be free, was to see through eyes unclouded by fantasy or the tears of heartbreak, I wanted to truly believe that everything he had said to me was a lie. I thought about something someone once said to me, in a different context but a similar situation. He said to me, “he’s not going to help you carry the groceries in.” While seemingly meaningless this spoke volumes not just about the object of my potential affection but it also illustrated what my expectations were. And Noe was not the type of guy who helped you with house work; he wasn’t the father of my unborn children nor was he the piece of the soul puzzle that I was missing; he was none of the things that I dreamt of as a child. I wanted sympathy, I wanted fairness, I wanted retribution for the pain caused by his absence, by his silence, by his lack of want of me. This time it wasn’t that I thought I did something wrong, it was that I knew I did. I knew that I shouldn’t have gotten involved with someone like him on the level that I did and although we never fully consummated our relationship in real life, what happened during those times was excruciating enough. I felt like I had known him for years, just like he said. I felt like I was connected to him, just like he said. I felt that I couldn’t miss out on a chance for love, just like he said. I felt it, he said it, and now the question of who actually meant it was staring me in the face. I didn’t know him, in fact I knew absolutely nothing about him or how he actually demonstrated his feelings. In hindsight I felt like I had only known him for a minute, years of life crammed into sixty seconds worth of time which amounted to nothing more than a blur.
That is all he was to me now, nothing more than the convoluted color of a building as I passed by.
And perhaps that’s all I was to him too."
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