She knows his kind. He is a prototype of the Western cognitive universe, where calibrated composure is strictly preferred to any display of vulnerability. A man of tremendous promise and perfection, collapsing under the weight of his own potential. A simple and decent man, his love life is steeped in the robotic rituals of serial monogamy. A man who has forged and forsaken intimacy so many times that he is inured to romantic aches and niggles. A man stuffed full of accolades, yet starving for meaning. A strategic man, his cold calculus of self-actualization has classified her as inconvenient
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