She's young, at twenty two, and has almost 200 years of memories. She envies him sometimes to be able to forget, but she would never say that to him.

She's always moving on down the way, never stopping. She has to, won't stop until she finds it.

Peace is what she wants. Silence is what she'd settle for.

Some nights it's just easier to give up. On those nights she lets them dream. Waking in the early morning hours to broken hearts and tattered hopes. And then she cries.


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His one goal in life - find out about his past. That's it, pretty simple. Clues come in and he goes off looking. Whatever gets in his way, he deals with the hard way. Everyone except for her.

He won't drag her into this. She has her own search anyways.

He travels and travels and still has nothing more than he started with. Sometimes, at night, he just wants to give up and settle down with her. He can't do that though, he won't until he knows who he was and is.

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Every few months they cross paths and come together in a storm of passion, but it never lasts more than one night. Neither willing to compromise their search for personal answers, to settle down and finally be one.



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The River And The Highway
Pam Tillis

She follows the path of least resistance
She doesn't care to see the mountain top
She twists and turns with no regard to distance
She never comes to a stop

And she rolls, she's a river
Where she goes, time will tell
Heaven knows, he can't go with her
And she rolls, all by herself
All by herself

He's headed for a single destination
He doesn't care what's standing in his path
He's a line between two points of separation
He ends just where it says to on the map

And he rolls, he's a highway
Where he goes, time will tell
Heaven knows, she can't go with him
And he rolls, all by himself
All by himself

And every now and then, he offers her a shoulder
And every now and then, she overflows
And every now and then, a bridge crosses over
It's a moment that every lover knows

And she rolls (and he rolls), she's a river (he's a highway)
Where she goes (where he goes), time will tell (time will tell)
Heaven knows, she can't go with him (he can't go with her
And she rolls, all by herself
And he rolls, all by himself
Fare thee well