Excerpts from a 4:16AM Monologue

Since then, I've never been able to honestly take anyone seriously when they'd use the word love--myself included--which closed me away from many happy endings that I refused to get into because of that one time you said it to me. Perhaps later on you realized that it didn't mean anything and I always convinced myself that it was just something said to get me to stay, but for whatever context it was meant to hold, its meaning was just invalid and forever a tainted memory for me. It's like you ruined the fairytale.