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[smilesheknows]

[The voice post turns on, and Lucy sounds like she's humming, then a little more audibly,]

If I fell in love with you,
would you promise to be true?
And help me,
understand,
'cause I've been in love before,
and I've found that love was more,
than just....holding hands.

[It's disjointed, and not as lyrical as it could have been, as if broken up

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[drafteddropout]

He's got to be back home. He's got to be. Hell, he's probably back in that little apartment, waiting for us.

[smilesheknows]

Max, he leaves us while you're in Vietnam. He goes home to Liverpool because...

[She can't help it, and sobs]

Because he was fighting for me at a Rally and we got arrested. He was deported.

[drafteddropout]

What? He got himself deported?

...While I was in where?

[smilesheknows]

They dropped the charges about what happened, but he didn't have a green card so they...they sent him back.

[Super long pause. Of course she's heard of Vietnam Veterans going completely crazy or trying to block things from their minds, but she seemed to remember Max saying he'd never gone.]

Vietnam. The war?

[transientglobal]

...How does the rest go?