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THINK ABOUT THAT GUY WITH THE MONEY, WITH THE LOOKS, WITH THE AMAZING PLACE IN the best neighborhood in town, WITH THE HOT GIRLFRIEND HE'S IN AN OPEN RELATIONSHIP WITH. THE GUY WITH THE COKE, HIS OWN BUSINESS, An upper middle class UPBRINGING, COLLEGE DEGREE, AND TRIPS WHEN HE WANTS. AND THEN THINK ABOUT HOW SAD HE WAS WHEN HE TRIED TO CONNECT WITH YOU BECAUSE ALL HIS LIFE IS FULL OF IS 20 YEAR OLDS AND PARTIES. AND REMEMBER HOW YOU JUST WANTED TO GET AWAY FROM HIM BECAUSE YOU HAD HEARD IT ALL BEFORE AND IT WAS NOTHING NEW.

THINK ABOUT THAT GUY WHO BRAVELY TALKED TO YOU AT THE BAR WHILE YOU WERE SITTING ALL ALONE, AND HOW MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE AND CONFIDENT HE BECAME, ALMOST EXPONETIALLY, THE MORE YOU BOTH CONVERSED. REMEMBER HOW OBVIOUS IT WAS THAT HE WAS AT HIS VERY CORE TOO SHY, TOO UNSURE OF HIMSELF, WOULD NEVER HAVE AN INNER STRENGTH, AND WOULD ALWAYS BE SOMEONE who WOULD BE EMBARRASED IF HE DIDN'T DO ENOUGH FOR YOU OR IN EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANTED IT. THINK ABOUT HOW YOU KNEW WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT YOU WERE 100% DONE WITH HIM AND THAT NOTHING WAS SALVAGABLE BECAUSE YOU HAD BEEN THAT PERSON, ALREADY HAD THAT IN YOU, AND THAT WAS SOMEONE THAT YOU WILL NEVER BE AGAIN AND WANT NOTHING TO DO WITH.

KNOW THAT EVEN THE MILDEST FLIRTATION on your behalf over the course of only one week WAS MET BY A STRING OF MEN WITH EXUBERENCE AND EXCITEMENT AND A PUPPY DOG KIND OF HOPE IN THEIR EAGER EYES. REMEMBER THAT YOU HAVE FELT THAT, BEEN THERE, WILL EXPERIENCE THAT AGAIN, BUT NEVER again WITH SOMEONE OTHER THAN A STRAIGHT-FORWARD, CREATIVE, KIND AND STRONG SOUL WHO STRIVES TO CORRECTS HIS WRONGS NOT JUST OCCASIONALLY, BUT DAILY.