Laura Katie Elphee

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“We Were Supposed To” by Laura Katie Elphee

Submitted to Contest #276

In college, my boyfriend and I broke up at one point because we thought we were supposed to. It felt like life was pulling us in different directions. We came from families that would never be able to merge cohesively. We were raised with different values and core beliefs. While reason told me we were better apart, I couldn’t shake my feelings for him. We used to take drives at night to escape the town that kept reminding us we weren’t compatible. He would drive, and I would exist happily beside him in the passenger seat. Sometimes we...

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