Listen for the Lie

by Amy Tintera

“The truth doesn’t matter.”

Let this be a lesson to all the men out there who can’t handle conflict—man up and dump your girlfriend, or you might end up living with a suspected murderer indefinitely.

For fuck’s sake. Men are such babies. They’re too scared to actually break up with you, so they just get mean or fade away until you get mad and dump them.

They’re usually some version of “How do you live with yourself, you heartless bitch?”

“You’re going to hell,” except almost always with the wrong your, which is extremely distracting. An insult doesn’t have the intended impact when spelled incorrectly.

Dad’s so good at that Texas thing where you act polite to people’s face and then talk shit behind their back.

guess it’s mostly women who do it. But sometimes you meet a girl who is just, like, your soulmate. Not in a romantic way, but in a friend way. Which can almost be more intense. You could tell that Savvy and Lucy were in one

those intense friend-soulmate relationships.