his ex, whom he’s still friendly with, happened to be there. Janet decided to initiate a conversation with her “because I feel like if I can be friendly with this person and know her as a person, then I’m less likely to stereotype her as an ex. So I did talk to her a little bit and she was friendly enough.” But a while later, the ex went over to Janet’s boyfriend and sat on his lap. “He got her off very quickly,” she assures me. “But I just couldn’t understand it. I’d just had a conversation with her!” Janet laughs wryly, then adds, “I don’t know that she wanted him as much as she wanted to
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