In the movies or other people’s lives she comes back and she says it was all a mistake that she wants to be with you forever. You kiss and they cue the theme music. In my world I sit and wait and the dust thickens and the cobwebs grow and I toss back another beer or pill and time distorts so I can make it through another day but still she doesn’t come. After a while I forget if she was even real, the only thing that remains is the pain and the empty beer bottles.