“poppy, i remember everything"

"but you said–"

"i know what i said, but i'm telling you now, i remember it all"

"some would say that makes you a liar"

"no, what it makes me is someone who was embarrassed to still remember exactly what you were wearing the first time i saw you, and what you ordered once at a mcdonald's on tennessee, and who needed to preserve some small measure of dignity”