"He showed up."
"Where?"
"In a dream."
"In the dream, the person standing next to him was me."
"We are reunited after a long absence."
*You are too young and ignorant to let yourself go.
*No allusion, no prototype, pure fiction
*The male and female protagonists are eight years apart
*The heroine has a secret crush
*A particularly clichéd ending - it was all a dream
Intention: to shorten and adapt to changes