Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their heads? Are they in love? If so, is it the kind that Mum and Dad have? Based on having things in common, like raspberry picking and a love of dogs, and Shakespeare, and long country walks? Or is it the knock-you-out, eat-you-up, set-you-on-fire kind of love that I have longed for-and avoided-all my life? .Alison Larkin
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In this quote, a girl asks a boy if he shares a love with her. The boy asks the girl if she is in love with him, based on what the girl shares with him. The boy assumes that the girl has a similar interest in raspberry picking and dogs, that she has a similar interest in Shakespeare and long country walks. He also assumes that his love is the kind that binds people together and lasts forever like Romeo and Juliet's love.
However, the boy learns that his future wife has found another man to share her life with. While the girl is still in love with this other man, she has found someone different to share her life with and he is happy for her and happy that she is happy. The boy's wishful thinking has doomed them all to live separate lives, because this other man would never want to be in a relationship with someone who was still in love with him.
Source: The English American
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