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My s, I feel it all the way at the corners of my eyes

Me: Here and at the ready, my distressed friend Lay it on me

Maybe: Okay, so, I think I ood impression with Cassandra I mean, she didn’t kick me out in the first five minutes, and I didn’t make ANY references to My Little Pony She even happened to know some of my work from the Stanford Gazette

I shakecan amuse me so much

Me: Was referencing My Little Pony an actual possibility?

Maybe: I don’t put anything past myself when I’m nervous

Me: Well, you can relax now It sounds like she loved you

Maybe: Let’s not get too ahead of ourselves here, buddy

Me: Tell me this—did she tell you when she’d call you?

Maybe: She said I’d hear from her in the next day or so

Me: She loved you

Maybe: How in the hell do you know that? You weren’t even there! Can Billionaireh walls now?

I picture her getting all ah into the silence ofa little evil, but there’s no one here to hear it, so I don’t waste ti on it

Instead, I type out another e and hit send

Me: I’ve known Cassandra for a long ti she doesn’t ht shooter Like the John Wayne of publishing

Maybe: Huys friends, or are you guys “friendly”?

My eyebrows draw together

Me: Is there a difference?

Maybe: Yes Friends is friends But friendly? That could s Like when Jimmy Thompson’s rade, and he ended up with a dog-phobic half-brother

I laugh

Me: You’rethat up

Maybe: Maybe I am, maybe I’m not The story doesn’tdifferent than friends

I shake lance over at ot to be cold by now, but that’s what microwaves are for

Me: We are just FRIENDS, kid She went to Yale with me and Ev

Maybe: Ah, okay Not that itYou’re free to be friendly ho friendly with her probably wouldn’t be bad

Me: Maybe