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Sometimes you read something that's so beautiful, you don't care if it's true. This Boston man's "Missed Connections" posting on Craigslist, looking for a woman who saved his life back in 1972, is one of those things.
The "Missed Connections" section is an advertising art form unto itself. Daily heartbreak and hilarity collide in a whirlwind of humanity that can make for a good read at the worst of times. But then, every now and again, you come across transcendent perfection—a story you never want to forget.
In a short letter that could fit right in with the stories in Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, a Vietnam veteran seeks a woman he met and courted for one hour, and has never forgotten.
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