"Quoting Tennyson?" She asked. The After-Thought. The first time she had ever spoken to me Other than the imaginary conversations we had all put aside in a file titled HER in the back of my mind. I knew I loved her when my eyes caught hers, a first glance, like one of those slow motion hallway scenes in an 80s movie. That was it. So here it is. This is the story of a girl who broke my heart.