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2. The ‘Were We Ever Dating?’

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I’m hot cuz I’m fly, you ain’t cuz you not. This is why, this is why, this is why I’m hot.

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I met Paul at The Thunderbird, the only coffee shop in town that offered refuge for kids like us who were into art and music and politics but felt slighted in life, if only for the fact that we were born and raised in a small Michigan town.