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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EricNoah" data-source="post: 2226525" data-attributes="member: 4">A dream.It was my early 20s.  I had broken up with my soulmate, Kara, two years earlier -- not because I didn't love her, but because she wasn't ready to spend her life with me and I felt defeated and tired of waiting.  I had seen people who kept clinging to the person who didn't return their level of love, and they pretty much universally horrified me (in the sense that I never wanted to be as miserable as they clearly were).  So we broke up.  Shortly after this, I started dating a friend named Lisa.  We fell in love and for a long time I thought Lisa was the right one for me.  And in fact she could have been; we had our share of incompatibilities, but if I hadn't had Kara in my heart, Lisa and I might have been able to reach a compromise in the areas that weren't working out for us.  But one night I had a dream.  I dreamed that Lisa drove me to Kara's and dropped me off.  She smiled at me and told me it was okay.  I was so happy because I was doing what I knew was right.  When I woke up that morning, I knew what I had to do.  The dream wasn't about Lisa, it was about me and my lingering feelings of love for Kara.  That day, I broke up with Lisa; I gave myself a couple of days to get re-oriented, and then called Kara.  She was glad to hear from me, and it was clear that she was interested in more than what we had before.  I visited her (ours had always been a long-distance relationship), and within the month she'd decided to move to Madison to be with me, and a year later we were married.  And here we are, almost 11 years later. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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