She Told Him His Complexion Was Much Too Pale

For awhile there he had distorted his memories of her, and the time he had spent with her, into a magical, Hollywood-esque montage of non-stop dancing, endless shared sunsets, incomparable adventures and constant joy.

Gradually though the more-fantasy-than-reality memories of their time together began to fall away under the weight of the truth, and the truth was brutally cold & heartless.

Eventually, that's all that he was left with, and eventually that's what he became...brutally cold & heartless.