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I remember when I met you.

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You were reading Plato's Symposium.

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You read me the part where Aristophanes
says that people are only half people,

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torn in half by Zeus, and that we spend
our lives longing and searching for our

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other half.

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We hadn't known each other long, but you
said you thought I might be your other

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half, that you felt whole around me.

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It's easy to need you.

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A strange country where we were so
obviously different.

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Always the subject of interest.

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An oddity.

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You were my secret and my privacy.

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We were together from the moment we met.

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Nobody knew about us except for Monica.

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Before we met, I complained to her over
and over about being alone.

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That's why she introduced us, to get
some peace.

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She organised that trip to the country
so we could get to know each other.

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It was like there was no one else like
us on earth.

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I remember when we talked and argued
about whether or not to tell people

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us.

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I thought we had a responsibility to be
visible.

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I remember when we told Monica's friend
Han that we were together.

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She just laughed and thought we were
joking and thought it was not much good

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because we would have no children.

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She did tell me later that she had heard
of this sort of thing before.

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Apparently there was a man like us in
Saigon.

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I didn't tell her then that her best
friend Monica was a dyke.

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I'm not sure why we came back to Sydney.

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I remember us talking about it and
thinking it would be great.

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We were going to get a house together,
get jobs and be a couple.

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No more secrecy.

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We would be public.

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But it was different.

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Nobody noticed that it's true.

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There were a lot of people like us and
somehow we seemed...

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Less special.

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We got jobs and made friends and began
to live separate lives.

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I'm not sure when it happened, but
eventually we drifted away from each

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I didn't need you and you didn't need
me.

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There were always others interested in
sex and our relationship seemed to be

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stifling.

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We were the parody of a hetero marriage.

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Everything that we vowed we would never
become.

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about sex.

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They were different.

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We just stopped noticing each other.

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We moved apart.

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It was weird.

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I would see you once a week, sometimes
less.

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Then we just stopped.

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One missed a date and then too many days
passed for a phone call.

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It seemed like neither of us noticed.

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The city carried me along.

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Work, play, didn't really notice at all.
Until I realised I was looking for

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something without knowing it.

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A connection or an inspiration.

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A reminder of being alive to counter the
monotony of work and the routine of the

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city.

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That's how I saw you in the street.

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I know you didn't see me.

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But suddenly it all seemed clear and I
remembered.

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My other half.

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I remembered sitting on the roof
drinking beer with you and Monica and

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discussing the virtues of a communist
state.

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Han thought we were mad to romanticise
the system she had grown up in. You were

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passionate as always.

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And eventually she agreed that
capitalism sucked and was unsustainable.

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I remembered loving you in that moment.

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I tried to track you down but you seemed
to be impossible to find.

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We had drifted so far apart I didn't
know where to begin to look.

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I got this postcard from Monica.

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She said that she had seen you and that
you were there.

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She didn't say much but she said you
looked sad.

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Like you had lost something.

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I wonder if you feel it too.

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And if you'll find it.