Maybe it was a “Before Sunrise”-esque night of romance in college, or a chance encounter with a cute stranger in the grocery store that still pops up in your dreams. Perhaps it was the high school sweetheart you didn’t fully appreciate until years later, or a great love you lost to illness.

Not every love story ends with two people living happily after ever — and there is beauty in tales of love and loss, too. So as we approach Valentine’s Day, The Times wants to hear about the one who got away.

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