# Source of this quote?  Wonder Years perhaps?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 10, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722 "2010-12-10T23:32:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722/1 "2010-12-10T23:32:36Z")

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Maybe we could meet at random on the street several years from now and not remember each other’s name.

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**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2010, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722/2 "2010-12-10T23:46:55Z")

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Broadcast News?

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722/3 "2010-12-11T08:09:43Z")

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reminds me of stars’ ‘your exlover is dead’:

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> God that was strange to see you again  
> Introduced by a friend of a friend  
> Smiled and said ‘yes I think we’ve met before’  
> In that instant it started to pour,  
> Captured a taxi despite all the rain  
> We drove in silence across Pont Champlain  
> And all of the time you thought I was sad  
> I was trying to remember your name…

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**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722/4 "2010-12-11T13:27:07Z")

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Was there a line like that in “The Way We Were”?

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**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/source-of-this-quote-wonder-years-perhaps/563722/5 "2010-12-11T17:02:29Z")

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“The Way We Were” is the closest so far…but not an exact match. Not that I have the quote exactly right, either.