Fifty
I said, believing it, as we stood beneath lilacs:
"Now that I have met you, I must live forever."
Under blossoming lilacs, a speaker makes an impossible, tender promise: “Now that I have met you, I must live forever.” The phrase “I said, believing it” matters—the speaker knows, on some level, that no one lives forever, yet the feeling is so strong that it feels true.
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