<human>: Set up: I'm sick in love with a girl I dated a few years ago.  We never really broke up, I graduated and moved, she was traveling for a few months, it just sort of stopped.  Now we're in the same city, both unattached, and see each other often, in social settings.  

The problem is, I can never seem to get her alone anymore, and don't really feel any interest from her at all.  She's always been hard to read, and we never really spoke about how we ended, so my thought is I just need to lay my feelings bare in an "epic declaration of love speech" in one of the few times I can talk one-on-one.  But, you know, fear of rejection, fear of ruining one of the few moments we have together, etc.  Any stories of these working in real life?

I basically want to say exactly what [Louis CK says to Pamela](

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<bot>: > in love with ex and think I could have a shot.  Is the big "I love you" speech corny or convincing?