There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love.
A first glance
A first smile
A first kiss
A first fall…
(I remove the Darth Vader house shoes from my satchel and look down at them.)
You were wearing these during one of those moments.
One of the moments I first started to fall in love with you.
The way you gave me butterflies that morning
Had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else,
and everything to do with you.
I was falling in love with you that morning
because of you.
(I take the next item out of the satchel. When I pull it out and look up, she brings her hands to her mouth in shock.)
This ugly little gnome
With his smug little grin…
He's the reason I had an excuse to invite you into my house.
Into my life.
You took a lot of aggression out on him over those next few months.
I would watch from my window as you would kick him over every time you walked by him.
Poor little guy.
You were so tenacious.
That feisty, aggressive, strong-willed side of you….
The side of you that refused to take crap from this concrete gnome?
The side of you that refused to take crap from me?
I fell in love with that side of you
because of you.
(I set the gnome down on the stage and grab the CD)
This is your favorite CD
‘Layken’s shit.’
Although now I know you intended for shit to be possessive, rather than descriptive.
The banjo started playing through the speakers of your car
and I immediately recognized my favorite band.
Then when I realized it was your favorite band, too?
The fact that these same lyrics inspired both of us?
I fell in love with that about you.
That had absolutely nothing to do with anyone else.
I fell in love with that about you
because of you.
(I take a slip of paper out of the satchel and hold it up. When I look at her, I see Eddie slide her a napkin. I can’t tell from up here, but that can only mean she’s crying.)
This is a receipt I kept.
Only because the item I purchased that night was on the verge of ridiculous.
Chocolate milk on the rocks? Who orders that?
You were different, and you didn’t care.
You were being you.
A piece of me fell in love with you at that moment,
because of you.
This? (I hold up another sheet of paper.)
This I didn’t really like so much.
It’s the poem you wrote about me.
The one you titled 'mean?'
I don’t think I ever told you…
but you made a zero.
And then I kept it
to remind myself of all the things I never want to be to you.
(I pull her shirt from my bag. When I hold it into the light, I sigh into the microphone.)
This is that ugly shirt you wear.
It doesn’t really have anything to do with why I fell in love with you.
I just saw it at your house and thought I’d steal it.


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I groan and drop my forehead to hers, touching her cheek with my...
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Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling ...
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I don't know how he calmed me down without even talking, but he did. Some people just have a calming...
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When I touch you, I’m touching you because I want to make you happy. When I kiss you, I’m kissin...
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Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothe...
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There is no such thing as bad people. We’re all just people who sometimes do bad things.
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How could she love him after what he did to her? How could she contemplate taking him back?”
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Shouldn't there be more distaste in our mouths for the abusers than for those who continue to love t...
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Goals are achieved through discomfort and hard work. They aren’t achieved when you hide out in a p...
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Life is a funny thing. We only get so many years to live it, so we have to do everything we can to m...
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His memory is the last place i want to be. I would give anything to always be in his present.
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I don't understand my sudden obsession with staring at her, but i can't seem to stop.
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There can't be a maybe someday between us. There will never be a maybe someday.
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People don't get to choose who they fall in love with. The only get to choose who they stay in love ...
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I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.
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Sometimes moving on is the only way to move on.
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Her lips are in close proximity to mine, so of course I have to kiss them.
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We've got an entire lifetime ahead of us to do things like get married. But sometimes things in peop...
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It’s worth all the aches,
All the tears,
the mistakes…
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Now that I have you back, I’m never letting you go. That’s a promise. I’m not letting you go a...
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I love you because of you. Because of every single thing about you.
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Sorry,” Kiersten says to Lake and I. “Mom says the FCC is responsible for inventing cusswords ju...
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