You were that girl; one for whom<\/p>\n
someone as insanely in love as I could, fly<\/p>\n
halfway across the face of the earth,<\/p>\n
take the longer way home,<\/p>\n
circumnavigate the world.<\/p>\n
That afternoon standing facing a granite wall, looking at<\/i><\/p>\n
your caramel eyes, you over my shoulder gazing at the\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n
meandering Potomac.<\/i><\/p>\n
Years later you recalling that brief interlude – a vacation of sorts,<\/p>\n
commented how I missed the beautiful sight.<\/p>\n
And me, shaking my head slowly, my gaze locking yours, smiling and saying, ‘No’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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