The manuscript

[00:20.17] Now and then she re-reads the manuscript

[00:25.22] Of the entire torrid affair

[00:30.00] They compared their licenses

[00:32.12] He said, "I'm not a donor but

[00:35.04] I'd give you my heart if you needed it"

[00:40.09] She rolled her eyes and said, "You're a professional"

[00:45.40] He said, "No, just a Good Samaritan"

[00:50.19] He said that if the sex was half as good as the conversation was

[00:55.50] Soon they'd be pushing strollers

[00:59.48] But soon it was over

[01:20.73] In the age of him she wished she was thirty

[01:25.25] And made coffee every morning in a French press

[01:30.83] Afterward she only ate kids' cereal

[01:35.61] And couldn't sleep unless it was in her mother's bed

[01:40.65] Then she dated boys who were her own age

[01:45.70] With dartboards on the backs of their doors

[01:50.75] She thought about how he said

[01:53.14] Since she was so wise beyond her years

[01:56.59] Everything had been above board

[02:00.04] She wasn't sure

[02:20.76] And the years passed like scenes of a show

[02:25.54] The professor said to write what you know

[02:30.59] Looking backwards might be the only way

[02:35.64] To move forward

[02:40.70] Then the actors were hitting their marks

[02:46.28] And the slow dance was alight with the sparks

[02:50.53] And the tears fell in synchronicity with the score

[03:01.15] And at last

[03:03.81] She knew what the agony had been for

[03:10.45] The only thing that's left is the manuscript

[03:16.56] One last souvenir from my trip to your shores

[03:21.87] Now and then I re-read the manuscript

[03:27.18] But the story isn't mine anymore