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I wonder which memories you kept.

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Remember me, babe, when you look up at the stars at night and wonder if I’m seeing the same ones. Remember me, babe, when you finally get to Rome,; how I promised to get you there and how, though you never knew it, it was where I was going to propose.

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I know you will forget me the way they always do. You will let me go as easily as you reeled me in. You will stop finding my hair in your room. You will wash me from your skin, and your sheets, and, ultimately, your memory.

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When you close your eyes, is it me your mind drifts to?

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And although we’ve called it quits, I hope that you refuse to wipe me away.

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I hope that you’ll remember the versions of me that never gave up on us. Time after time.

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Right now it is my time to be hurt, but when I move on, you will feel my absence the way I have felt yours.

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I hope that the next time you pick up someone from the airport
and you wait patiently, on the second level parking
and spot someone with the same green suitcase
You remember me.

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I can romanticize my feelings for you as much as I want, but the brutal truth is you’re a stranger now.

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When I’m gone, please just remember there was a woman, who loved you with everything she had.