Benjamin Mee:

"I thought if I came out here it would stop. Back home, every place reminded me of her. Filippe's on Third Street. Balboa Park. Little Dom's, the coffie shop, that's a big one. I maen, the air, the way it smelled in May and August, because those were the months that her favorite bushes grew flowers all over our neighbohood. They're all triggers, man. And it got better for a while, I mean it did... out here. But the funny thing is that is just turns out that she's here too. I mean I got to Home Depot, I go to the nine-miles-away Target, and seriously I'm avoiding half the aisles; condiments, pastries, forget about that, she loved red kites and blueberry pop-tarts. If only I could talk to her about getting over her."


"What I've figured out is that when you love somebody that much, that hard, that long, you can never get away from them, no matter where you go, and that only comes once in a lifetime."