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    "description": "To the Green-eyed Lovebird:\n\nWe met fifteen years ago, almost to the day, when I moved my stuff into the NYU dorm room next to yours at Senior House.\n\nYou called us fast friends. I like to think it was more.\n\nWe lived on nothing but the excitement of finding ourselves through music (you were obsessed with Jeff Buckley), photography (I couldn\u2019t stop taking pictures of you), hanging out in Washington Square Park, and all the weird things we did to make money. I learned more about myself that year than any other.\n\nYet, somehow, it all fell apart. We lost touch the summer after graduation when I went to South America to work for National Geographic. When I came back, you were gone. A part of me still wonders if I pushed you too hard after the wedding\u2026\n\nI didn\u2019t see you again until a month ago. It was a Wednesday. You were rocking back on your heels, balancing on that thick yellow line that runs along the subway platform, waiting for the F train. I didn\u2019t know it was you until it was too late, and then you were gone. Again. You said my name; I saw it on your lips. I tried to will the train to stop, just so I could say hello.\n\nAfter seeing you, all of the youthful feelings and memories came flooding back to me, and now I\u2019ve spent the better part of a month wondering what your life is like. I might be totally out of my mind, but would you like to get a drink with me and catch up on the last decade and a half?\n\nM\n\nFrom the USA TODAY bestselling author of Sweet Thing and Nowhere But Here comes a love story about a Craigslist \u201cmissed connection\u201d post that gives two people a second chance at love fifteen years after they were separated in New York City. ",
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