He didn’t want to be set up with people. He didn’t want to know what his friends thought he was worthy of. All of this was still so new that the only thing he could tolerate was the ice-cold democracy of a dating app. Look at this Tamara. Was that not confirmation enough? She was a tiny child-woman. His friends didn’t think he deserved a full-grown woman. They didn’t think he deserved the full swimming pool of breasts that Vanessa had. Seth, his friend, didn’t think Toby had the right to all he had.

