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She sits and stares at his picture Wondering where he's at It's been twenty-five years now Since she thought of him like that She's been reminiscing more lately Since her husband passed away Thinking about her high school years And her boyfriends of that day She was just a little lonely now For she's been married most of her life She met her husband in college And he soon, made her his wife She wonders if she should call him What would he think of her now? She only dated him for a couple of years Could he have forgotten her somehow? She picks up the phone and dials the number She thinks, "It's funny the things you remember" For the last time she even talked to him Was twenty-five years ago in december A woman answers the telephone She hangs up in an instant, of course He calls her back and says it's his daughter And he tells her about his divorce They talked for a couple of hours that day And soon they decided to meet He sent her a dozen red roses And then took her out to eat "It was almost like high school" she thought He made her feel so young But she didn't know how much he'd changed And that's when the trouble begun He brought her home around midnight And asked her to invite him in She said, "Sure we'll have a nightcap" So she offered him a glass of gin He pulls out a knife and grabs her throat And tells her to shut the door He didn't know about her twenty year old son Who was asleep on the second floor She screams "What are you doing? Let me go!" As the scream awakens her son He jumps out of bed and runs downstairs In his hand, he's holding a gun He aims and pulls the trigger They heard only the sound of a thud He drops the knife and falls to the floor Where he lays in a puddle of blood The police were called to their residence Yellow tape surrounded the door They told her he was a wanted criminal For he'd done this twice before A serial rapist, they told her "You're very lucky to be alive" For the other victims weren't so lucky And neither of them survived "What was I thinking?", she thought to herself "I really didn't know him at all" She closes her high school yearbook And hates that she ever called
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