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It might have been the time I dribbled ice cream on my shirt and you never said a thing about it. Didn\u2019t point it out. I found it later when I undressed. Chocolate dried and stiff.<\/p>\n

It could have been the argument about Obama. I should have known to pull back from position and sit and nod with an attentive look. You rolled your eyes at everything I said.<\/p>\n

Or when you came to dinner and I\u2019d made chicken marsala and a spice cake with cream cheese frosting. I forgot you said you hated chicken. You didn\u2019t stay for cake. Whatever. I knew you\u2019d be the one to say goodbye.<\/p>\n

And now when I run into you on campus, I pick up speed as if I need to get some place. \u201cI\u2019m running late!\u201d I say and let it trail behind me like a banner from an advertising plane. In fact I want to stop and talk. I want to ask you why you left me even though you gave a statement of a generic sort. Something about we didn\u2019t have a lot in common. Well, let me ask: Who else but I has every Woody Allen movie ever made? Who else hates Pirates of the Caribbean<\/em> movies? Who but you or I read Joyce as breakfast fare?<\/p>\n

But no, I\u2019m doing fine and running by you. Lest you see that I have chocolate dribbled on my shirt or notice what you could think were tears in my eyes and still say nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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