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Sister trope to [[Did Not Get the Girl]], only here we never even meet the girl (in the present anyway, flashbacks are allowed).
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== Anime And Manga ==
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== Comic Books ==
 
* [[Carl Barks]]' creation Glittering Goldie for Scrooge McDuck; future writers like [[Don Rosa]] jumped on the tragic story and made her a [[New Old Flame]] in most adaptations, including ''[[Duck TalesDuckTales]]''.
 
== Film ==
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* Sam the Lion and his "young lady" in ''The Last Picture Show''.
{{quote| You wouldn't believe how this country's changed. First time I seen it, there wasn't a mesquite tree on it, or a prickly pear neither. I used to own this land, you know. First time I watered a horse at this tank was - more than forty years ago. I reckon the reason why I always drag you out here is probably I'm just as sentimental as the next fella when it comes to old times. Old times. I brought a young lady swimmin' out here once, more than 20 years ago. Was after my wife had lost her mind and my boys was dead. Me and this young lady was pretty wild, I guess. In pretty deep. We used to come out here on horseback and go swimmin' without no bathing suits. One day, she wanted to swim the horses across this tank. Kind of a crazy thing to do, but we done it anyway. She bet me a silver dollar she could beat me across. She did. This old horse I was ridin' didn't want to take the water. But she was always lookin' for somethin' to do like that. Somethin' wild. I'll bet she's still got that silver dollar.}}
* Famous line from ''[[Citizen Kane (Film)|Citizen Kane]]'':
{{quote| '''Mr. Bernstein''': A fellow will remember a lot of things you wouldn't think he'd remember. You take me. One day back in 1896, I was crossing over to Jersey on the ferry and as we pulled out there was another ferry pulling in and on it there was a girl waiting to get off. A white dress she had on. She was carrying a white parasol. I only saw her for one second. She didn't see me at all, but I'll bet a month hasn't gone by since that I haven't thought of that girl.}}
* Evoked in ''[[Kiss Kiss Bang Bang]]'', when Harry sees Harmony.
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* ''[[A Christmas Carol]]'': Ebenezer Scrooge and his vanished fiancee Belle.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Fate]]'': Josh and Jen throughout the early part of the [[Myth Arc|metaplot]] (mostly only gone heavily into in the novels and a few published adventures, but it's a very intense invoking of this trope). Eventually they ''do'' get back together, and it becomes [[New Old Flame]] (but of the non-[[Put Onon a Bus|putting on a bus]] variety) and then a [[Tangled Family Tree]] sort of deal similar to Zeus and Hera, and, ''oh yeah'', they're both actually two parts of the same person (or God, technically) so it's [[Screw Yourself|Selfcest]] as well, but it definitely starts out with many long years of Josh pining over Jen, The One That Got Away.
* ''[[The Great Gatsby]]'': The ''entire'' plot is based around this and Gatsby's subsequent attempts to win her back. {{spoiler|[[Downer Ending|He doesn't]]}}
* In ''A Scandal in Bohemia,'' Watson seems to suspect that Irene Adler is this to [[Sherlock Holmes]], being the only woman who's [[I Love You Because I Can't Control You|managed to outfox him]] (she got married to someone else shortly afterwards). The fact that Holmes won't ever refer to her by name, instead calling her "''the'' woman", [[She Is Not My Girlfriend|doesn't prove much]].
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* ''[[Thirty30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'': When Floyd came back to visit, Liz tried to [[Invoked Trope|invoke]] this trope ("The next time Floyd brings some corn-pone tranny back to his apartment, all he's going to be thinking about is me standing there in the snow looking like the one that got away."), but largely failed.
* One episode of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'' has Wilson tell Taub and Kutner about House's "one that got away". Turns out he was just screwing with them - he even gives the woman's name as "[[Sherlock Holmes|Irene Adler]]." House actually did have a The One Who Got Away in Stacy who he rejected anyway after realizing that he could never love her like her husband Mark could.
* ''[[Castle]]'' has one in Kyra in the episode ''A Rose For Everafter'', much to Beckett's chagrin, though she won't admit it.
** Not that Castle is pining away for her and abstaining from love entirely. [[Really Gets Around|Oh, no.]]
* Season 2 of ''[[Californication]]'' features Lew Ashby, a music mogul, who got so wrapped up in the fame and the money that he lost his girlfriend, Janie, who got married to some [[Jerkass]]. Hank even tells Lew that Janie is his "Daisy Buchanan," and the whole season is basically a [[Whole -Plot Reference]] to ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''. {{spoiler|Up to and including Gastby/Ashby's death.}}
* Surprisingly, {{spoiler|Belle}} is this for {{spoiler|Rumplestiltskin}} in [[Once Upon a Time]]. It tortures the latter even in their new lives.
 
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== Western Animation ==
 
* In the ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode "Epilogue" (the [[Fully -Absorbed Finale]] for [[Batman Beyond]]), Selina is given a [[Continuity Nod|nod]] as being this for [[Batman|Bruce]].
 
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