i'll make this awkward.

i'll make this awkward.

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Dear Mr. Fantasy

Dear Mr. Fantasy

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liz carey
Oct 02, 2023
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I walked out of my apartment planning to smoke on my steps, a combination of nerves and I didn’t want my hair to smell. A date, a blind date, I had never been on one. I was back in my homeland, freshly divorced and 25. This already seemed like a lot to spit out over a breadbasket.

I looked at my reflection in the glass of the door and saw him, well sort …

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