By Jack Joseph Smith
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Looking back on romance and destiny, the speaker imagines himself as unusually conscious of what each attachment meant, and suspects that this very intensity may be why he kept being left alone.
The page turns self-knowledge into a burden. The verified transcription preserves the source's rough spellings while clarifying that the closing claim is simply, `I was left alone`.
A question about destiny as mutual. Did she think about it when we met — each time, puppy-love young, he understood who he was with and what she meant. All the girls did too. That is why I was left alone.