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Where does love go? Where do you go, the leftover?
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The quote asks two linked questions: where love goes, and where the “leftover” goes afterward. By calling what remains “the leftover,” it presents love as something that may leave a remainder behind. The speaker does not explain what that remainder is, leaving the reader to consider whether it is a person, a feeling, or something else that remains after love has gone.
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