As Valentine's Day approaches, we've been collecting your memoirs of love and heartbreak — all in six words.
"After 20 years, still the one" says one listener from Rhode Island. Elizabeth in Denton, Texas had a darker story: "Wonderful love — then alcoholism took him." Stephanie in West Palm Beach's had a story that sounds like the start of a sitcom: "Funny, intelligent. Infatuation. Straight, gay." And Constance in Salt Lake City, Utah's story is: "Husband flees but still calls daily."
Many of the stories coming in are too intriguing to leave at six words. Listener Rees Shad from Carmel, New York ("Distinct possibility this is a dream") explains why he keeps waiting to wake up.
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Summer of '60; My lifelong love
Hello PTA committee co-chair, goodbye husband
Outta my league. Couldn't last.
Wedded late. Well worth the wait!
Hello PTA committee co-chair.
Goodbye husband.
Cancer took you love continues anyway
Not first, but first to last.
Married the wrong guy. Now what?
China gave us two beautiful girls.
Misguided vain arrogant repels daughter's love
Pummeled by parenthood, can love revive?
I thought she was an intruder.
Kissed his hand, left; remember him still.
I'm going to propose next week.
He left my heart for Francisco.
Never ever willingly parted from her.
From Hell to heaven through cyberspace
Best of friends, worst of mates.
All she left me. Her gun.
Well, I lost another true love.
Love fulfilled my soul now empty.
Carl,
You are the air I breathe
our love used to inhibit unhappiness.
True love: went to Jazzercise with me.
Married Kashmiri tour guide. Awaiting immigration.
All the good ones WEREN'T taken!
Our love, created, sustains, pure joy
Six years later,
heart broken again.
Second time around got it right.
nothing
mine
mine
another's
broken
heart
1.
secret text message: "want more talk"
2.
solar eclipse, accidental parenthood, fate unfolding
Should have picked the English Guy.
Cupid! Visa... remote... restored? Damn DOMA!
Forever? Yes! Then another stole my heart.
Shame on me. Believed you again.
Beautiful girl lost to Rett Syndrome
Dream job
stroke
disability retirement
Defeat
No more, he was my last.
Midnight call from Texas. Dearest cousin
My soulmate, but I wasn't ready
Other lips will kiss her eyes
From Gordon Lightfoot
"bye dad see you in heaven."
I should've listened to my parents.
You left. I grew. We loved.
Two six word stories:
You cheated. I took your stuff.
Gay bar meeting. True love found.
The last is the story of my current relationship. We met in the only gay bar in the not-terribly-small city in which we found ourselves. I hung out with amateur theatre folks, he had a lesbian roommate. Thus it was that two straight folks found love, at the gay bar.
Needless to say, a number of our gay friends were less than thrilled that it was us - not them!
The boy with Adonis' face said yes.
Rescinded "I love you" during breakup.
Married my husbands brother. So happy.
Kids in love, old now. Happy!
With you, love is so simple.
:)
Blood. Money. Sex. CIA. Love. Loss
"My next life you'll be mine"
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