Meet Me In Antarctica Comments

Here I am listening to the music you sent me. And you are very far away from me and I will never see you, let alone see you again. If you said, 'Meet me in Antarctica.' I would have taken a boat, brought an anorak, a camera, a little prayer book, a change of underwear, and one red balloon (in honour of the film) . And I would have made sure that my boat would meet your boat while Icebergs shatter in the distance and little shavings of ice were floating around us. Then I would throw all my stuff in your boat and climb over myself. I would tell you a beautiful secret, but from a middle-distance it would just look like I was blowing a cloud into your ear. After that I'm not sure. Maybe we would follow whales together. Maybe we would try to find a bit of moss growing on the warmest parts of Antarctica.

What have we got in common? I thought because our hearts are engineered the same way that they would hold the same amount. And you know, they say the heart can actually remember things. That's why when someone has a heart-transplant the recipient can takeon the personality of the donor. So, you see, my heart remembers you. There's a little bit of you in my heart and vice versa. Seeing you is like smelling a beautiful perfume that reminds you of the frangipanis in Hawaii when you were a child.
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