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old stories and black and white films
where the hero falls
in love
with the girl he’s only just met a few pages
ago
when all it took was one look from big eyes that are far bigger
than any modern day girl’s
and a face that is obviously from the 1930s
then after defying his parents
and saying to hell with this life
he pursues her
but she plays hard to get of course
but then they are only what, sixteen?
eventually he gets her to notice him
and confesses his undying love for her but then
he probably has to go off to war
or some other place far away but then just before he goes
she declares she’s loved him
all along
and they promise to marry when he returns
and
perhaps she’s pregnant
from the one and only time they made love
because in stories that’s
all it takes is one time
of course in the end he dies in the fields
and maybe she dies too of a broken heart
