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* [[spoiler:Ari, Lena's mom]] in Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants was contacted by a man who had abandoned her years before and who she had never entirely gotten over. She went into the meeting seriously thinking it might result in her leaving her new husband and family, but left grateful that her life had gone in a different direction and with new appreciation for her husband.

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* [[spoiler:Ari, Lena's mom]] in Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants ''Literature/TheSisterhoodOfTheTravelingPants'' was contacted by a man who had abandoned her years before and who she had never entirely gotten over. She went into the meeting seriously thinking it might result in her leaving her new husband and family, but left grateful that her life had gone in a different direction and with new appreciation for her husband.
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* An episode of ''Anime/RumicTheater'' has a man being invited to a school reunion by a girl he remembers having a crush on, and who might just have reciprocated, but he was transferred out before he could learn the truth. His current married life is... disappointing, and he fantasizes about having a fling while simultaneously realizing how unlikely that would be. At the reunion he meets the woman who reveals that she ''did'' have a crush on him, and is conveniently recently divorced... and is now grossly overweight, not one bit pretty and a sloppy drunk. He decides to bail out early. [[spoiler: On his way to the train, the man meets the actual girl he was thinking of (both women have the same given name) who is just as pretty and likeable as he remembers... and is happily married with several children who made her late for the reunion. He returns home somewhat heartened and determined to make his own marriage work.]]

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* An episode of ''Anime/RumicTheater'' ''Manga/RumicTheater'' has a man being invited to a school reunion by a girl he remembers having a crush on, and who might just have reciprocated, but he was transferred out before he could learn the truth. His current married life is... disappointing, and he fantasizes about having a fling while simultaneously realizing how unlikely that would be. At the reunion he meets the woman who reveals that she ''did'' have a crush on him, and is conveniently recently divorced... and is now grossly overweight, not one bit pretty and a sloppy drunk. He decides to bail out early. [[spoiler: On his way to the train, the man meets the actual girl he was thinking of (both women have the same given name) who is just as pretty and likeable as he remembers... and is happily married with several children who made her late for the reunion. He returns home somewhat heartened and determined to make his own marriage work.]]
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* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': In ''The New Files'', it's revealed that Kumagami once had a relationship with [[spoiler: [[AffablyEvil Richard Wong]]]]. This naturally leads to a confrontation between the exes, just before he makes his escape. [[spoiler: Wong]] {{troll}}s her by pretending to give himself up, because of his feelings for her. She falls for it, he [[BridalCarry scoops up her up]], then... [[Funny/{{Patlabor}} dumps her in a laundry basket]] and runs off.

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* ''Anime/{{Patlabor}}'': ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'': In ''The New Files'', it's revealed that Kumagami once had a relationship with [[spoiler: [[AffablyEvil Richard Wong]]]]. This naturally leads to a confrontation between the exes, just before he makes his escape. [[spoiler: Wong]] {{troll}}s her by pretending to give himself up, because of his feelings for her. She falls for it, he [[BridalCarry scoops up her up]], then... [[Funny/{{Patlabor}} dumps her in a laundry basket]] and runs off.
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* ''Film/{{Partners|1993}}'': Dean, a lawyer, goes to see a rich client and discovers that the rich client's TrophyWife is his old college girlfriend Georgeanne. Georgeanne accepts Dean's impulsive invitation to run away with him. They are zooming up the Pacific Coast Highway in Dean's car when he pulls over at a scenic point. All of a sudden he seems to realize that he's older now and there's nothing between him and Georgeanne anymore. He drives her back home.
--> '''Dean''': We're just good friends.
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* ''Literature/YearsOfGrace'': In 1897, 17-year-old Jane is stopped from marrying Andre (not much older) when the two sets of parents forbid it. She spends 33 years never quite getting over him, until she meets him again in Paris--and she finds him a bitter old cynic, having married a younger woman who regularly cheats on him. Jane is disappointed at their reunion, regarding him as "dead" and wishing that she hadn't seen him and could still remember the romantic young man of 1897.
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* A platonic version in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book where Elizabeth's former best friend from middle school returns to town. Elizabeth is initially thrilled, but over the course of the book, realizes that Amy's changes to the point of having more in common with her sister Jessica and is saddened to realize that their friendship is over.

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* A platonic version in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book where Elizabeth's former best friend from from middle school Amy Sutton returns to town. Elizabeth is initially thrilled, but over the course of the book, realizes that Amy's changes changed to the point of having more in common with her sister Jessica and is saddened to realize that their friendship is over.
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* A platonic version in the ''Literature/SweetValleyHigh'' book where Elizabeth's former best friend from middle school returns to town. Elizabeth is initially thrilled, but over the course of the book, realizes that Amy's changes to the point of having more in common with her sister Jessica and is saddened to realize that their friendship is over.


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* ''Series/GeneralHospital'''s Miguel spent his days brooding over his FirstLove Lily and taking an interest in Brenda, partly because of their resemblance. Brenda's jealous boyfriend Sonny arranged things so that Lily would come to town and the two could be reunited. Unfortunately, despite valiant efforts to revive their relationship, the two were eventually forced to admit that after six years, they had changed considerably and that things were now DeadSparks.
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* ''Literature/TheHanSoloTrilogy'': Han rekindles things with Bria in ''Rebel Dawn''. She had left him in ''The Paradise Snare'', but both retained their feelings for each other. However, it doesn't last since [[spoiler:she betrayed him along with the smugglers he recruited to her cause, with Han ending things for good]].
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