the love not taken

in love with the book
anxiously waiting for the dvd ori movie release

since i write shitty reviews in which i abuse the vocab of awesome or epic
i’ll just leave the professionals do that for me

In 1988, the day after commencement, two college graduates briefly, romantically collide. She’s an earnest, outspoken lefty, he a handsome, apolitical toff who “liked the word ‘bourgeois’ and all that it implied” and “wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.” Their chemistry is as inarguable as their differences, but because of the pride, carelessness and misplaced optimism of youth, they let time and distraction separate them. Yet they never lose track of each other. “One Day” checks in on their intersecting lives once a year, every July 15, from 1988 through 2007 …

Liesl Schillinger via nytimes
image from very aware