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“Cou­ple Daily Life” by Nicholas Harter

- When you found me, you rec­og­nized me.

–What do you mean?

–You know who I am.

- No, what do you mean, When I found you?

- You found me.

- We found each other.

- But I wasn’t look­ing for you to find me. I was look­ing to find some­one. I just didn’t know what it would mean.

- I still don’t get it. We found each other. I found you and you found me.

- I didn’t know you were look­ing for me.

- How could you? Don’t be silly.

- I knew you found me when you rec­og­nized me. I felt found.

- I liked you. Like you.

- This isn’t lik­ing some­one though. I like this com­forter. I don’t rec­og­nize it. You rec­og­nized me.

- It’s not that com­pli­cated, lik­ing someone.

- Rec­og­niz­ing some­one is complicated.

- You’re con­fus­ing me.

- You see me for who I am. You see things in me that I don’t see. Things that I don’t want to see.

- I know you’re a good man. That’s why I like you. You do what you say you are going to do and you’re nice to me.

- You see me.

- You’re pretty close right now.

- No, you see me for who I am.

- You’re not that much dif­fer­ent than any­one else. But you’re nice.

- And that’s it?

- You’re sexy. I like how you smell.

- Don’t you feel it to0. That I rec­og­nize you?

- Like you for­got me and then remem­bered? What’s the point of that?

- So we com­plete each other. You rec­og­nize me. I rec­og­nize you. We know what’s inside each of us but we know that we feel com­plete with that under­stand­ing. It’s like we were the miss­ing key.

- Wow.

- What? You feel it too, right? Tell me what it feels like to you…

- Just wow. I don’t get it. We’re good together. I like you.

- You’ve got to feel this too, right? How would you describe it?

- Describe this?

- Yes.

- What we’ve got?

- What it makes you feel?

- It makes me feel spe­cial. It’s easy. You’re nice. I like when you feel good.

- And that’s enough?

- Enough? What’s the mat­ter with that that it’s not good enough?

- Don’t you feel it inside your soul, what this con­nec­tion means? I feel like I’m anchored here, like you’ve taken a piece of me and put it inside your­self to com­plete a puz­zle, and that if I break away then every­thing inside me is going to fall to pieces and I won’t have the one piece I need to put it all back together.

- You’re giv­ing me a headache.

- I mean it, don’t you feel this?

- Look, I’m not going any­where. Doesn’t that mean something?

- It means you are get­ting some­thing that you don’t want to stop get­ting, that’s what it means.

- That’s being mean. And what’s wrong with that? I give you the things you want too. All the time.

- Yeah, but you can buy things that you want. That’s like going shop­ping. You can’t sep­a­rate two things that are chem­i­cally mixed. That’s what Love is. That’s what’s going on here.

- You bet­ter think about what you’re call­ing me. I’m going to sleep. Stop talk­ing. You’re going to ruin everything.

- I can’t.