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When you’re with someone, you both should be able to bring out the best in each other. I don’t think I brought out the best in him. I think I drained him.

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The greatest irony is that most girls don’t even care if a guy has any of these supposed physical disadvantages; they just need to know that YOU don’t care either.

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One of you — I’ll call you Sloppy — took a long drag of your cigarette and narrowed your eyes as I started to walk past, trying to make eye-contact with me. You then blew out the smoke into my face, trying to get my attention.

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Tell yourself he likes you.

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Jack would also show you glimpses of his cruelty. He liked to make you feel stupid in that sly way that’s hard to pinpoint and therefore, difficult to ever address. He would rarely go to your apartment and spend time with your friends. Actually, he took no active interest in your life at all. You seemed to only exist within the confines of his apartment. That’s where it felt most safe for him.