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@CherryBomb wrote:
Rest easy tonight, friend.
@CherryBomb I've been studying that winking smiley emoji and I think you are messing with my brain, and you know it. I super super like you and I get the sense that you kind-of like me, and I would super like to hang out with you in person...but we are not friends. I don't do friends. Friends hurt. They walk into my world, seem all caring, make me feel safe, and then they dump me. Since my last friend bailed out in November, I'm never doing the friend thing again. It just hurts far too much.
And now I can hear my uni counsellor in my brain telling me that if someone identifies as my friend, then it is socially inappropriate for me to tell them we are not friends. But I'm looking at your avatar and you look like you have broad enough shoulders to cope with it.
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