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People act like it’s a perfectly normal question, but how normal is a question when you’re expecting the answer to be gruesome?
maybe questions don’t stem from interest in the other person so much as curiosity about the lives we might have led
The platform doesn’t allow people to post things like “All Muslims are terrorists,” because Muslims are a PC, a “protected category,” just like women, gay people, and, believe it or not, Mr. Stitic, heterosexuals. “All terrorists are Muslims,” on the other hand, is allowed, because terrorists are not a PC and besides, Muslim isn’t an offensive term.
Maybe falling in love isn’t filling up a loyalty card with feelings and actions so much as just adding two things together: desire plus fear.
The fear, on the other hand, grew gradually: fear that she wouldn’t be coming to the sports bar that night, fear that we wouldn’t end up kissing, fear that she’d change her mind. Those were pretty much the stages of falling in love for me.
