In one episode, Carrie tells Big that she loves him. He responds with some comment totally off subject, and she gets annoyed. She concludes that an unreturned "I love you" has about the same shelf life as a dairy product...about a week.
In another episode (or maybe the same one? ) Samantha sums up the problem men and women have with those three little words...
You can tell a man you hate him and have the best sex of your life. But tell him "I love you" and you'll probably never see him again.
Is that really true? Has love become so scarce that people have to ration it out, choosing to walk away instead of loving in return? What are we so scared of?
And what about the love between two people when a relationship ends? Does it stay out there in the universe, somewhere in the background like an inconspicuous piece in a big collage? Just an eye or a hand or a bit of color within the big picure?
Or does that expire too...souring and congealing -- needing to be put out with the week's peelings and egg shells like that carton of milk from the back of the fridge that no one wants to open?
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I think the memory of love is what you make out of it. You can choose to forget and then it stops to exist or you can cherish it, and it will exist as long as you do. I do hope we are capable of loving each other, what do we have to live for otherwise?
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