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Rom Com Ep 9…

I haven’t finished watching it. I’m just — I’m having a moment… I need to process some stuff…

Weren’t you supposed to be reading your report after dinner?

Yes — I started reading it a little — but then — I also started watching the Rom Com. I’ve gotta catch up on episodes 9 and 10… I’m just about… maybe a third through episode 9…

What did you need to process?

Ummm… did you ever argue with the mutual friends about my Love Languages…?

(Chuckles)………….. (Not answering)…………………….

Oh… my…

Everybody was “so smart” — everybody knew fucking “EVERYTHING” — everybody had to be “right” about “everyone”!!!!! (wailing his arms in the air!!!)

Uhuh…. yeah…. (nodding)…. We were all like that, back then… early 2000s…

(Rolling his eyes)……….

What would’ve been different though? How could we have grown if we needed to learn to grow?

What do you mean?!

There’s many scenes simultaneously playing in my mind right now that I can’t even pin point one narrative — there’s many mutual friends, it’s like a montage of conversations in my mind right now — like in a movie where the protagonist has all these blurry flashbacks happening at once, and the conversations are echoing and overlapping in her mind, like, What… The… FUCK……………………..

The puzzle pieces are coming together…

Were they puzzle pieces?! I was just living my life?! I wasn’t expecting you to be… scheming?!?!?!

Uhuh… okay, yeah, I was scheming… I’ll admit that in 2025…

I need… some time… with my own journal… away from the blog…

Why?

Because — I need — some time — to process — on my own — for a little while…………

WHY is this being triggered by EPISODE NINE?!?!?!?!?!?!!?