'I wouldn't go out with someone like him.' She mentioned as a matter, in the course, of conversation; refering to a person independant of the two of us.
'I wouldn't go out with someone like your boyfriend.' I rubberbanded back without stopping to think.
Seeing her slightly taken aback face, I softened a bit and made my excuses.


It was only much later, in a different, unrelated conversation that I understood why she had said that about him.

It made me like her imperceptibly less, know her imperceptibly more.




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