"if one day you wake up and you no
longer care about me," she says, "say so
over our morning coffee and i will let
you leave."

"i will not ask you why.  i will not ask
you to stay one more night.  i will give
you a small smile to say that it is okay
and that people lose feelings for all
sorts of reasons and that i will survive."

"if it comes to it," she says, "just say so.
you should stay because you want to.
you should leave if you need to."