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She screwed me for life,” he lamented to the pretty young woman he desperately wanted to love but couldn’t quite fall in love with. “I’ve had relationships before but she was the most peculiar, infuriating and damnable thing I ever dared care for!” “You want to forget her,” his girlfriend said painfully. She rubbed his back wishing she didn’t have to compete with a menacing memory. “That relationship, the strangest I’ve ever known, changed me,” he confided regretfully. “Like an unwanted and destructive addiction.” “She wronged you,” the red-head beside him blurted out truthfully. “And she continues to wrong you because you let her. Ever since her you can’t help but compare.” He looked at her tenderly, his heart trying to break through ice. “You want to let go but you can’t let go,” she continued coolly. He looked into the distance feeling the one he drew close but seeing the one out of reach. How could he let go of something, or someone, that made him feel so alive? A sweet, supportive voice knowingly broke through his thoughts, “The challenge,” she whispered, “lies within you…
