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Occasionally when I hear a song I haven’t heard before, I’ll make a mental note of some of the lyrics so I can go look it up later. When I do this, sometimes I’ll find the lyrics on some blog or other kind of site with comments and even though I know that internet comments are often the domain of the stupidest people on the planet, I’ll read them. Sometimes when I read comments I try to imagine the state of mind or the situation that the author was in when they wrote the comment, I’ll try and figure out what caused them to put out there this remark about some song from decades ago.

Occasionally though I’ll come across a comment such as this one:

“This song brings back a lot of memories for me. Back when I lived in the dorms at school there was this girl who would wake me up early every Saturday morning to do laundry with her. I would drag myself all hungover, down to the laundry room. She would bring her boom box and listen to music and dance as we did our laundry. This was one of her favorite songs. It moved me to see this girl dance and sing so early in the morning, so happy. It still moves me, it makes me happy inside, I miss doing that with her so much.”

And then I’ll wonder what happened to this guy? (I assume it’s a guy, I don’t know that it is.) What happened to the girl? Given that I am looking at comments on the internet, is this the wistful regrets of somebody over something they wish they had done in college and this song is a persistent reminder of that? But surely that can’t be it because it’s a positive memory that remains. Am I projecting my own regrets on to this anonymous internet person? Only a little.