Listening to him on the radio as she dressed for school, his voice was in her head.

"I'll always love you," she told him.

Years later and thousands of miles apart, her voice was in his head. Lost and lonely, angelic powers conspired to reunite these fractured souls, their fingers meshed, lips reclaimed, bodies entwined, and sadness obliterated by the strong winds of permanence and shuddering ecstasy.

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love

Summer vacation was days away and he'd be all hers.

"I'm going to Paris to stay with my father," he told her with his warm cheek pressed to the side of her neck.

Ripples of panic radiated up her spine. Alarms rang in her throbbing head. Her world was collapsing. What was she going to do? What could she do to get him to stay, keep him away from those French girls, or at least make him remember her?

U2 - A Day Without Me

Polly was by a fountain on campus looking at him. He was in town for a book signing. He wondered if she'd be there, if she had read the passages about his love for her, how she had gone off to college while he had left for the city. He had married and divorced since they last spoke, yet she had always been in his heart.

That night they were together again after all those years, in her bed. She was on him. He was in her. They had imagined this action a million times.

Her feelings and longing for him had nothing to do with reason, in a blur of swirling emotions she cried and whimpered, "Did she love you? Was she good for you? Did she hold you like I do now?"

Sinéad O'Connor - Troy