But I still has enough longing for that concept that I didn't want to dispel it completely. Meaning: I didn't want to tell Lily that I felt we'd all been duped by Plato and the idea of a soul mate. Just in case it turned out that she was mine.
It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn't, and you were in the only nice, dry, cosy place in the world.