The Bird Show

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I'm a musician I've been in band since I was 16

I had a high school sweetheart

And we used to play extreme all the time

My band played it with our song

Any time that comes on it just kills me

And we broke up when I was 17

I'm 34 now I don't think a day has gone by or I haven't think about her. I'm still in love. Oh. Oh. I tried to find her a million times on MySpace and Facebook and all that stuff, and I can't never ever find her. God, we are hopeless romantic. I know. So sweet, though. I felt the same way hearing it again. It was like the first time.

Hey, Craig, good morning.

Good morning.

Hey, welcome back.

I'm a little nervous this morning.

Well, I mean, 17 years ago, you and Heather broke up, and it's accurate to say that you have

thought about her every single day for 17 years.

Yeah, pretty much, even if it was just the second or she was the person that I measured

everyone up to.

Why do you think you haven't been able to let her go?

It was my fault in the circumstances of our breakup and everything, and then I was young.

I decided to go into the military, and I think that was, that intensified it a little bit because I was alone. I was in Europe, and, you know, the last real girlfriend that I had ended like that. I had a lot of time to think. Now, you've been married since then. Yes. You've had children. A totally different life. I mean, obviously, over the last 17 years, your life goes in one direction, her life goes in another direction, but you write in your email that through all that stuff,

every single day you've thought about her. Yeah, I never obsessed about it or anything,

but I always thought about her even when my kids were born and everything. I always wondered,

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