" 'There was an attraction,' he said carefully, 'but it was more than that.' [we broke up a few times and i started to date other girls, but their shine demolished, i had hyped them up in my mind]. 'I could see that she had never been less than what I'd figured her to be. If anything, she was always better than I had remembered. And that's what I think love is,' he said quietly. 'When your hind sight's twenty-twenty, and you wouldn't change a thing.' "