"I saw her in the park. Her hair, unbound. Unbridled laughter spilling from her lips like a sweet cherry wine."
"You haven't even spoken. How can you be in love with her?"
"You see, I'm in love with the way she tilts her head just so in the sunlight so a halo appears in her copper curls. I'm in love with the way she flashes a pearl-white smile at even the smallest joke. It isn't a sort of love that compels me to be with her you understand."
"I'm not sure I do. Explain."
"It's like loving the stars for their beauty. You know they are there even when you cannot see them and they fill you with hope even though you never hope to touch them. It is like that."
"I'm still not quite sure..."
"Aaron, I am in love with her pure, unabashed vitality. With how she is unspeakably, undeniably human in everything, despite everything. With the fact that she can brighten the day of even a stranger such as I just with her laugh."
"What are you planning do do about this 'love' that you claim to feel?"
"Nothing. That is, nothing to do with her. Really, all I can do is strive to emulate the ease with which she portrayed herself so I can hope to bring someone else the same joy."
"A noble aspiration."
"I'd like to think so. I only wish she could know that she has affected me this deeply. I wish I knew even her name."
"I'm sure that you are not the first, nor the last to feel this way towards her. Someone, even if it's not you, will tell her eventually."
"I am sure of it. I hope whoever it is makes her happy."
"Terry, do you think there was a reason you felt so strongly about this, about her?"
"Maybe. I was... having a bad day. Everything was grey."
"And she was a spark? She gave you hope?"
"Yes. I suppose."
"I'm glad of her, then. Perhaps you may meet her again, fate willing."