It's funny how this happens: "it doesn't really make sense, after all, this thing between us. but the pull you have over me—it's incredible."

and if (or when) things fall apart, even realizing in a psychological way that we are drawn to try to fix our pasts through others, even knowing that perhaps we are so attracted to fix or change what cannot be worked out with someone else...even understanding that doesn't take away the incredible memory of the draw, the pull.

It rings so true there's probably at least aspects of truth, but I find myself hoping it's fiction.

Because it ends with...a longing instead of fulfillment.

Very well done. Brought tears to my eyes.