And, what do you call the thing where you’re supposed to completely ignore the pretty girl and talk with everybody else? Emotional manipulation. Come on, Max, you have to at least admit that.” I should admit it, but I’m feeling defensive, now. “All performance is emotional manipulation. At the Shiz, you worked your ass off to wring emotion out of music. And the actors there? Method acting is emotional manipulation. The key of D minor is emotional manipulation. But I’m the bad guy here?” “It’s different,” she says. “And the men are only supposed to choose girls they will never feel attached to,
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