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Dev willingly threw away six years on a man who told him from the beginning exactly how their love story would end.
“For my twenty-eighth birthday, Jules threw me this huge surprise party with half the crew at my favorite bar, and Ryan showed up with a Goonies T-shirt still in the brown paper Target bag as his gift. I’m not materialistic, but we had been together for six years, and he bought me a novelty T-shirt for twelve bucks in the girls’ section at Target. It was clear he had forgotten my birthday and picked it up on the way to the party. And it was an XXL, so it didn’t even fit me.
Charlie tried to dry-hump Dev mid–panic attack.
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Most of the time, Dev is like a human bonfire walking around generously warming everyone with his presence. But burning that bright and that fiercely must be exhausting; no one can sustain it forever. Charlie wishes he could tell Dev it’s okay to flicker out sometimes. It’s okay to tend to his own flame, to keep himself warm. He doesn’t have to be everything for everyone else all the time.
“I’m not afraid of anything. Except emotional intimacy and abandonment.”
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