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I have spent a lifetime with you out of reach. I can die that way as well.

Who knows? We invent all kinds of theories about how our hearts get broken, when we're the ones who drop them on the floor.

I was suddenly overcome by a yearning, if not a grief, for my once-innocent childhood, before I had the power to undo the Lord's timelines. On a calendar, it was thirty years since my days here, but with all my jumps and life corrections, who knew how long it had really been? Or how old I actually was? Lallu and I shared a memory that almost no one else in the world could: the version of me before I became different.

p196: My hands gripped the steering wheel.
"You played good today, Alfie," my father said.
"You did, too."
"For an old man, you mean?"
"Yeah. For an old man."
He chuckled. I was so grateful for his smile, I nearly cried.

That would prove to be a mistake, and my first lesson in The Truth About True Love: what we yearn for, deep down, is a heart that will embrace us after we make a fool of our-selves.

"Yaya, did you hear me? Why do we only get to go back once?"
She sighed, as if it were obvious.
"Alfie, if you keep getting second chances, you won't learn a damn thing."

I love how Mitch Albom tells a story