My reaction to her only intensified when I watched her walking away in the rain, all small and uncertain, and I jumped right in and bulldozed. She clearly didn’t want me to drop her home and I insisted anyway. I did more than insist; I physically put her into the back of my mother’s Range Rover, too aggravated and flustered by my feelings to take a step back and listen. Yeah, that was a stupid move. I shouldn’t have put my hands on her. Helpful or not, it wasn’t the right way to go with this girl. The worst part was knowing that if my mother hadn’t shown up when she had, there was a very big
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