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It's often said that you don't know what you have until it's gone.

We find as we grow older, but in our youth, we tend to have a false sense of

permanence about everything and everyone.

Gabe! I'm home!

Hey. Hi.

How was your day?

Oh, you know.

Another exciting day in the world of law school.

Lots of Latin.

Fun.

How was yours?

Well, I, uh, I wrote a poem.

Is it about me?

They can't all be about you. I like when they're about me.

Okay. You caught me. It's about you. I knew it.

What else happened?

Well, I figured we'd have the night in.

I, uh, got some food for dinner and picked out a movie.

Aren't you just the sweetest thing?

Sweet and a little too poor to take on a real date.

You know I don't care about that.

But one day I know your music's going to pay off.

And if it doesn't, I'll be a big successful lawyer anyway.

I love you. I love you too.

When you're young and love is new.

It's also easy to think that the passion is fixed, that it will never wane or

change.

It's difficult to imagine the peaks and valleys that any romance goes through in

those first weeks, months, sometimes years if you're lucky.

Imagining heartbreak is nearly impossible.

It's hard to see anything when you're blinded by passion.

Sometimes we think passion is enough to make something last forever.

Unfortunately, it isn't.

Sometimes not even love is.

Separately, they can be intimidating.

Combined, they can be disastrous, unless you're strong enough to handle them.

Goodbye.

He wasn't.

Neal, door.

Neal.

Babe.

Babe, what's wrong?

A little help here. I mean, it's your party too.

Okay.

Hey, two lovers.

Hi, Tammy.

You guys are the first ones here.

Thank you so much for coming.

We wouldn't miss it for the world.

Well, come on in, guys. We just grabbed some drinks over there. We just finished

setting everything up. Sounds good.

What?

We've just finished setting everything up.

Babe, I'm sorry.

I appreciate everything you've done for this.

I know I've been a pain.

But,

you know, I've been so busy with... With the Wilson case, I know.

Look, don't worry.

You're going to have your own high -profile case in no time, and you'll be

driving me crazy.

Okay?

Okay.

Now, come on. We have to go be the guests of honor at our engagement party.

Hello darling.

How are you?

Okay.

Miss you.

I know.

I'm sorry, babe.

There's just a really big breakthrough with the case today, and Cheryl's

me in.

I figured.

The case.

I understand.

You're upset.

I'm sorry.

I mean, if you want, I'll tell Cheryl that we'll just have to talk about this

back at the office.

No, really.

It's okay.

It's important.

I understand.

Thank you.

I love you.

I love you, too.

I can't believe you.

I can't believe you invited Ryan.

What? Why not?

Because you know how he makes me feel. I get all tongue -tied and my stomach

starts to turn.

And then I have a tendency to drop things.

As if anyone could make you tongue -tied, please.

Have you thought about telling him how you feel?

No, absolutely not.

Well, that might be step one.

to curing your flipped stomach.

How'd you come to be so smart?

And who the hell is that, by the way, with your fiancé?

That's Cheryl.

He's paralegal.

Oh, my God. Did that guy ever stop working?

Oh, my God. I love this song.

I'll be right back. And tell that guy of yours to pay you a little bit more

attention.

I wish I knew how.

You wanna throw that? I do.

You do?

I do.

Good?

Very good.

And the luckiest man in the world.

You're so sweet.

Tell me.

I'm not being sweet.

I'm serious.

I don't know what I did to deserve you.

You're just you.

That's all you ever need to be for me.

But look around here, baby.

Look how beautiful is this.

Star contrast to our apartment.

Yeah.

Look at Carrie.

And then look at Neil.

She can't stop working for a second.

I don't even care if we have all this stuff. It doesn't matter because I have

you. And I know that we'll always be personally to each other's hearts and

that's all that matters.

That's why I love you so much.

I love you so much. Oh, baby, I love you too.

Mom, maybe this isn't the best time, though.

I can't help it.

I need you right now like I never needed anyone before.

Okay.

How about your own thing?

Own thing?

Don't let me go.

Never.

When the passion seemingly left your life,

When you recognize it in others, it seems like a force of nature.

It's easy to get swept up in it with them.

Bye.

Where should I go?

Oh no.

and really cool.

No, no, no.

Here we go.

Oh God.

I fucking can't make it

I can't breathe.

Thank you.

Thank you.

To the right, want to go, but you're losing my attention.

When you stop, when you think of the things you never mentioned.

Summer flowers, when you run, don't want to feel alone.

What? What broke?

Um, my champagne glass slipped.

Who's this?

This is Gabe, an old friend.

Gabe, this is my fiance, Neil.

Nice to meet you, Gabe. Nice to meet you.

You've known Carrie for a while. You're not surprised that she's a little bit of

a butterfinger.

So why don't you guys go ahead and join the party and I'll clean this up.

Okay.

Wait, are you okay?

Yeah, everything's fine, babe.

We'll join the party in a minute.

What the hell are you doing here?

Carrie, wait.

Calm down.

I will not calm down.

You won't.

out of my life five years ago.

Not much of a word, a note, not even a trail of breadcrumbs.

And then you show up here on my doorstep at my engagement party?

How dare you?

How did you even find me?

I took a wild guess that the law firm that included your last name might be

yours.

So I checked it out.

That girl Cheryl that works at the front, she's very easily persuaded in

out people's personal information.

You might want to talk to her about that if I were you.

You just left.

I woke up one morning and you were gone.

Poof.

Now I managed to finish out the rest of the semester.

I don't really know how I was...

In a daze most of the time.

What did I do?

Why did you leave, Gabe?

Why would you leave me when I loved you so much?

Jesus, I'm sorry.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry, could it ever be enough?

It can't.

And I never expected it to be.

I was young and I was scared.

You were poised for greatness.

Look at what you've accomplished in such a short period of time.

I was just afraid that I would get in the way or... Or that I'd do better than

you.

I finally came to.

But you're afraid my success would eclipse yours.

You know what?

You're right.

I was afraid of that every minute of every day.

You were and still are the smartest woman that I've ever known.

You're going to law school.

You had your whole future planned out in front of you, and it glittered.

I had no place there.

I was just a musician, for Christ's sake.

What could I have ever given you?

Something that was in short supply at that time in my life.

I counted on yours.

I like that we were different.

I know.

I just want you to know that there was never one minute that I stopped loving

you.

What is this?

The CD. It's for you.

Not just the CD, but the whole album.

Every song is about you.

Every song always was.

Don't do this.

Not now.

Gabe, I've always held a special place in my heart for you.

But I'm marrying you.

She's wrong for you, and you know it.

You gave up the right to say what was wrong or right for me years ago.

At least he's there when I wake up in the morning.

It's not the mornings that I'm worried about.

Once the seat of doubt has been placed, it's hard not to let it flourish.

No matter how hard we try, our imaginations have a way of getting the

us.

And in our imagination, things are always more intense than they are in our

-to -day life.

No one daydreams about the mundane.

And sometimes, we let this doubt get the better of us.

And sometimes, passion sits just below the surface between two people, and it

takes someone else to bring it out.

But then again, sometimes a jealous daydream is just a jealous

daydream.

Hey, how are you?

Beautiful bride to be.

So good to see you.

You don't know how good.

Everything okay?

Yeah, they will be. No use dwelling, not when my favorite guy is here.

Besides Neil. Her favorite guy besides Neil.

I don't want anyone getting the wrong idea.

It's okay.

I'm pretty sure everyone here knows our miserable little history.

You know, I think you're the first girl that ever dumped me and said we should

just be friends who actually meant it.

I told you it'd be better this way.

And you were right.

Man, were you artistic in the mud today.

I was not.

I was the perfect lady.

My point is that.

So,

uh, where's Marty tonight?

I saw her around here earlier.

Um...

No, you know Marty. She's bouncing around here somewhere, making friends

everyone and everything.

She's fun, isn't she?

Mm -hmm.

I've missed seeing her.

Of course she's fun. That's why she's my best friend.

Balances out my stick -in -the -mudness.

No.

No way!

What? You have a thing for Marty.

I do not.

Yeah. You do?

Maybe just a little bit.

That's amazing.

I'm completely floored.

All right, that may be a little much. I know you're shocked, but she's a very

attractive woman.

I don't see why you're so... No, no, not because of that.

Because Marty's held a torch for you ever since the two of you met.

She has?

Absolutely.

How come you never told me?

She was my best friend.

And that kind of sacred information is more valuable than attorney -client

privilege.

I can't believe it.

I can't believe how much time her and I have wasted.

Well, don't waste any more talking to me. Go and get her.

That may be the smartest thing you've ever said.

Hey. Oh, Brian. You startled me.

I'm sorry.

I didn't mean to.

Can I make it up to you?

For me?

Of course.

Thank you.

It's a nice day out, huh?

Remember when we first met?

What?

You were at Carrie's, and I was coming over to study.

I walked in, and there you were.

You were sitting.

Just sitting there.

I've never seen someone sit with so much excitement.

It was incredible.

I remember that day.

I even remember what you were wearing.

That many colors on anyone else would have seemed ridiculous.

Yeah.

On you, it was so natural.

I'd pass through life every day seeing people trying so hard to be unique.

And you, Marty, you're the only person I'd seen that actually was unique.

You were so straight -laced and serious.

But when we talked, like, we were finishing each other's sentences.

In no time. That was a long time ago.

It's hard to believe it's already been five years.

It's hard to believe Carrie's getting married.

Who would have thought?

Bookworm Carrie.

She went through a lot when Gabe left.

Well, you know.

I do.

You and I were the ones that helped her through that.

Yeah, we sure were.

That's when I knew I loved you, Marty.

With all your colors and laughter.

Frivolity. We're masking something so much deeper.

Your dedication to your friend, it was unwavering.

I'd never seen anything like that.

Wait, what'd you say? When you what?

When I loved you.

It's when I knew I loved you.

What? I'm confused.

Look, Carrie told me.

She told me you had feelings for me ever since that first day. She did?

Why would she do that? She figured me out.

She was able to see how much I cared for you.

That's the only reason she told me. Believe me.

Marty, are you okay?

Look, maybe I did this all wrong.

Maybe I should have found a different way to tell you instead of just bringing

it on you like this.

thank you thank you for what for for being smart enough to look past all this

and see what's really in here

Okay.