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I a to win her back at this rate But how the hell can I win her back when I don’t even knohat the issue was in the first place?

For what must be the thousandth time, I lean back in my chair and replay the last phone conversation we had “I love you, Rick,” Kara had said, her voice oddly expressionless “But I don’t think this is going to work”

“Why not?!” I asked, dureat More than great, in fact We cooked and laughed and watched ether, cuddled and kissed and made love constantly We held each other as we slept, her lush body pressed up against ht I can’t remember the last time I’ve felt so close to someone, if ever I had seriously doubted that I would, or could, find love again after ift the universe could have ever provided me

But evidently, she felt otherwise

“We’re h statement that I audibly snorted “No, I mean it, Rick You’re busy at the hospital, and I’m busy at school We’re on different paths”

“Kara, I don’t understand,” I said, trying to keep in to cru froed for you so suddenly?”

She was silent for a moment

“Nothing has changed I just feel like we shouldn’t see each other anymore”

I’ll adressively than I should have But she just kept offering the sa, I think, what she really wanted to Eventually, I felt a vein pulsing in my forehead and my hands clench into fists, and knew that this conversation was no longer productive--if it ever had been in the first place

“Okay, Kara,” I said “I don’t get it I don’t understand I love you so much, but if you think this needs to be the end--”

“I do,” she said, with a hollow tone in her voice “Goodbye, Rick”