I loved you so much once. I did. More than anything in the whole wide world. Imagine that. What a laugh that is now. Can you believe it? We were so intimate once upon a time I can't believe it now. The memory of being that intimate with somebody. We were so intimate I could puke. I can't imagine ever being that intimate with somebody else. I haven't been. Raymond Carver
About This Quote

After time passes, our memories of the past often become clouded. We can view them very differently when we are adults than when we were children. Sometimes the memories become so distant they no longer seem real. This quote by Christopher Buckley is about the memory of an ex-lover.

The woman who shared these words was referring to her time with this ex-boyfriend in high school when she was in love with him. After high school, she moved on and didn't think about him again until she saw him at a family wedding two years later.

Source: Where Im Calling From: New And Selected Stories

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