--and then there's the purple one and that's a fuckin' liability too, don 't get me started on how many friendships that thing's gonna end up wrecking and it's like, what, can we not go back to just having to find nice things to say about each othe--

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[OKAY. He leans forward to kiss her on the lips this time, telling himself that all he's doing is fixing two problems at once.]