“I’m only clarifying the nickname rules. So far we have ‘not Snowglobes’ and something that can be said in front of a classroom of second graders and their nannies from the Mainline. Any other requirements?” “Something you could say in front of your mom.” She took another drink from her glass. I dropped my gaze to my hands and squeezed the stem of the glass. With Jules, I never felt like I had to hide who I was, but I didn’t want to be a pity case, a sob story where she’d look at me and squeeze my hand and smile at me because she was that kind of person. But she didn’t know everything about
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