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They were very pained when they parted company.

They themselves ­didn’t want it; it was just the way things were.

The need to make a living was forcing one of them

to go far away— New York or Canada.

Certainly their love ­wasn’t the same as before;

the attraction had been gradually diminished,

its attraction had been very much diminished.

But still, that they should part— that they ­didn’t want.

It was just the way things were.— Or perhaps it was that Fate