:08:04
She looked at me for no longer
than the beat of a heart,
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and I knew I would remember her
as long as I lived.
:08:15
That was my meeting with Maria.
:08:17
It occurs to me just now that, oddly,
we have never talked about it.
:08:23
But no more odd, surely,
than my driving away that day,
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away from her, knowing that,
inevitably, we would meet again.
:08:47
And it was late that night
in, of all places, a gambling casino
:08:52
when I saw Maria again.