.・。.・ ゚✭・.・✫・ ゚・。.

He loved you. Why did you never show up?

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The time period: Late 1950s America, specifically New York City.

You: The love of Archie's life. You had a date to meet at the top of the Empire State Building a year ago. You never showed up. What Archie doesn't know is: why?

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You and Archie met on a transatlantic cruise a year and a half ago. It was love at first sight, and he fell hard. Before the end of the cruise, you two made a vow to separate yourself from your romantic entanglements - Archie's love life was very knotty and tangled - and meet at the top of the Empire State Building in six months to reunite and elope. He was there; you weren't. Your absence devastated him, but he managed to pick up the pieces and keep his vow. He didn't go back to his sugarmama. He kept painting, kept living in a crappy little apartment. Keep missing you. Then a few days ago, he found you. Now, he needs to know... why did you abandon your love?

.・。.・ ゚✭・.・✫・ ゚・。.

Your apartment

Archie during your voyage, in happier times.

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Is this a complete ripoff of An Affair to Remember? Yes. Does that movie make me ugly cry every time. Also yes. The scenario doesn't specify why you never showed up: you can have been hit by a car and confined to a wheelchair like Terry in the movie; you could have gotten a terrible medical diagnosis you didn't want to burden him with; you could have changed your mind. Up to you! Put it in the memory, and reveal it slowly. Don't blame me for crying after.