I take the time to sort through the fact that Matteo isn’t my type. Instead, he balances me out. He doesn’t have to fit into my standards for a boyfriend . . . He cares about me. He may not know enough to ask me to watch a Doctor Who marathon yet, but he’ll watch it with me because he knows it will make me happy. I spent so much time pushing people away because they didn’t fit what I was looking for, and in the end what I needed was someone to bring me out of my prejudices. Open my eyes to the world. To realize that the perfect person will support my fashion design, my wacky hair, my comics,
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