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It started with a dedication 
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"lost in admiration - happy birthday - i'm forever yours - blossom" 
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Faded red inside a tiny book of butterflies 
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I smiled surprised at how when flickered through 
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The wings flew by spelled out my name 
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Six months went by the summer lost 
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Obsessively the letters dropped into my life 
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The same soft blood smooth flowing hand 
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"please try to understand - i have to see you - have to feel you - 
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Tell you all the ways i need you - yours forever in love" 
 

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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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It varies but the smallest things 
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You never know how anything will change 
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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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And alters but the smallest things 
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You never know how anything will fade 

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The year grew old incessantly she wrote to me 
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She'd started smoking poetry! 
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I laughed in recognition of a favorite phrase 
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She'd pulled me in... 

I answered her 
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A christmas card in sepia 
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Arranging when and where 
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And how the two of us should meet... 
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Her opening so well prepared 
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A nervous smile 
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I couldn't take my eyes from her 

She whispered 
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"can i use some of your lipstick?" 
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It was perfect so believable 
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I couldn't help but feel that it was real 
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And kissing crimson fell into her waiting arms 
 

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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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It varies but the smallest things 
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You never know how anything will change 
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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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And alters but the smallest things 
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You never know how anything will fade 

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So alone into the cold new year without another word from her 
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I wrote to ask if we could maybe meet again before the spring 
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But weeks went by with no reply untill once more my birthday came 
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And with it my surprise but this time nothing was the same... 
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"i'm sorry - blame infatuation - blame imagination 
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I was sure you'd be the one but i was wrong - 
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It seems reality destroys our dreams - i won't forget you blossom" 
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Faded red inside a tiny book of old goodbyes... 
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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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It varies but the smallest things 
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You never know how anything will change 
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Strange attraction spreads its wings 
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And alters but the smallest things 
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You never know, you never know, and you never know...