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"And the tears start falling," the lyrics drifted through the room. gonidis_kai_me_pianoyn_ta_klamata_k_mia_aghapi_...
The song shifted, the bouzouki reaching a high, wailing note that felt like a needle to the chest. Yannis felt his eyes grow hot. He wasn't a man who cried often, but Gonidis had a way of finding the cracks in a person’s armor. If you would like to continue this story
On the radio, a low, gravelly voice began to sing. It was Gonidis. The melody was a slow zeibekiko, the kind that forces a man to look at the floor and count his regrets. The song shifted, the bouzouki reaching a high,
They had been "the one love" that the songs talked about—the kind that burns too bright to last. He remembered the way she laughed when they rode his old motorbike down the dirt paths of the island, and the way her expression would turn serious when she talked about the future. He had been too proud then, too stubborn to follow her when she chose a different path, and too broken to ask her to stay.