As we made our way back to my hotel, I asked her if she had ever been in love. "Twice, Jake. Two times. A third I thought I was in love, but I was sorely mistaken.""Why so?""Love is an AVENUE", she responded in a resplendent French accent, "and I was dutifully traveling a one-way street."Tragic."And you, my dear?" she asked."Two times, once for real. One time I thought I had what it was that I needed and could return, and once, it was just pure. It was purely that, just love.""That's the way it goes I guess" she said. "Sometimes people are just 'star-crossed lovers' and that's what you got. You're star-crossed and that's that.""I don't believe that. I believe that you reap what you sow, and the seeds that you plant every day are your harvest in your old age"."You're a romantic Jakey. Beautifully principled, but it just doesn't work that way."We meandered in relative silence back to my hotel."Well, my dear, it is the moment of truth or dare", I said."DARE!" she said as she l
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