“Anna got up and stretched out the kink in her neck. Before Ben, she never could have written those lines because before Ben, she had never known those feelings. If she could have gone back in time and magically make it so they’d never met, she wouldn’t have done it. Because along with the pain was the sweetness of feeling all that she’d felt for him. Part of her wanted him to know that. It didn’t even matter about the girl on the promenade. <I>But how can I? He thinks I’m with Adam</I>, Anna realized. I want him to know that I didn’t replace him with anyone except myself. That I don’t just date people to keep from being lonely. Ben should know that I’m alone. By choice.� – Girls on Film