"Where one goddess walks, another waits, and dreams are only memories yet to come."
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By HARTLEPOOLMARINA2014 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0,
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Everyone remembers somewhere they hung out as a kid, whether a favourite park or a cafe where you'd all lounge about all day, pretending to be the cast of Friends.
Well, it seems that this doctor had a retreat of his own - as a schoolboy, he would play around this fairytale castle's six-mile walls and ultimately fell under its spell.
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And he saw the woman standing on the parapet under a gleaming moon with her dark cloak billowing in the wind.
"It was you. All those years ago, I saw you."
"I saw you." She touched a hand, very gently, to his cheek. "A young, handsome boy, so troubled, so full of thoughts. I wondered when you'd remember me."
"Why did I see you? Why didn't they?"
"They didn't need to."
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