“Zak, I’m totally jealous of you. You deal with people giving you crap every day, but you don’t change yourself to please them. And you shouldn’t have to either, because, well, you’re frakking awesome.” I pause while he sort of laughs. He’s totally nervous, and it’s not helping my nerves at all. How do I explain this? “I kept asking myself why I couldn’t do that. Ignore what people thought of me and be myself. You were… are the only person who knows who I really am and you like me for it. You make me, I dunno, proud to be a total dork. “So, yeah, you’re part of the reason still, but I’m not
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