tanja

And he would see all these faces, for several years. He knew she had moved shortly before he decided to leave school, but still, he thought he kept seeing her. Every expression of every woman he encountered, this little girl had shown, for a fleeting moment, on her young face.
But he knew it couldnt be her, so he looked to the older ones. These were the ladies that could teach him about his wrongdoings, and perhaps steer him away from his dangerous thoughts.

He would propose to several of them, but they would always decline, these older women of his.
He was genuinely in love, with each of them, for a brief time.