Shadowing Practice: Ex-Couples Play Truth or Drink | Cut - Learn English Speaking with Video
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Who did you invite here today?
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I invited my ex, Giacomo Peliscondolo.
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What are you hoping happens by the end of this?
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Maybe a little bit more closure.
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I think it ended pretty quickly.
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I invited my ex -boyfriend, now roommate, Kevin.
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I wanted to ask if he would ever get back with me again.
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Giacomo Peliscondolo.
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Giacomo Peliscondolo.
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Good to see you.
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Good to see you.
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We met on a 12 -hour blind date.
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We're exes.
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Oh, I was going to say we're exes.
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We're friends, yeah, definitely we're friends.
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But we're no longer together, if that was, like, unclear, yeah.
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Oh, okay, actually, I want to know this.
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Have you hooked up with anyone since our breakup?
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Yeah.
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You have?
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It's been two months!
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Yeah, it was, like, a casual thing.
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It was, like, sort of a, like, a spur -of -the -moment thing.
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Hooked up meaning saying sex, or are you saying, like...
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Like, hooked up.
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It was just, like, a night out.
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Like, it was just, like, it went out.
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Like, I don't go out that often.
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I had, like, been kind of not really doing much, like, socially in that sense.
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I met someone, and, like, we had a great time.
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We had good chemistry and everything, and we just, like, made out at the bar.
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It wasn't that, like, you know.
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Are you going to see them again?
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No. Okay.
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Have you hooked up with anyone since our breakup?
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Yeah.
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I've made out with people since the breakup.
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You know about one of them.
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You don't know about the other one uh i did i did make out with somebody
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that is like i wouldn't say a mutual acquaintance
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but in the realm of our site i would say
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and you two are broken up you guys are allowed to do
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that right yeah yeah like obviously there's like weird boundaries
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that we go back and forth on
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because we still live together who was it it was room
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interesting have you no yeah i have i have hooked up
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with people yes okay since breakup yeah do you know about
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this are you quiet about it it wasn't no i think
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like no getting it was very much like forbidding exactly it
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was uh i found like a pair of earrings next to
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my bedside once i came back from florida one time wait
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in your bedside Well at the time we were still sleeping on the same bed
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and not anymore not anymore He sleeps on the floor now.
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So since the relationship, how many people have you gotten intimate with?
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None Intimate is it like I Don't know making out kissing on the neck,
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you know One How many people have you been intimately sexually?
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physically with can I take a shot on that all right shot on that oh you're taking one too
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call a friend and tell them you
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and your ex are back together get their honest opinion
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if they think it's a good idea or not I'm calling my baby sister
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and I'm telling her that Giacomo and I are getting back together call Sid why who's Sid
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i can't wait till he sees this sid is both of our best friends do you want to see me
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and liberty are getting back together okay what do you think about
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that honest opinion honest entirely it's a terrible decision how do you feel about that i think that's a terrible idea
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I'm not really shocked.
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I knew we were going to get back together.
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Okay, so you've seen my ex come through at the cafe.
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Like, what do you think of him?
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You think he's swagalicious?
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I don't think that that matters.
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I think he doesn't treat you right.
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Right, right, right, right, right.
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You think he's right?
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Yeah.
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Oh, 100%.
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If you could swap lives with me for 24 hours, what would you do?
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I feel like the first answer is like obviously
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if I'm a guy I gotta I gotta go be a
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guy like I gotta at least know what a penis feels like yeah
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if you were my body for a day experiencing pissing oh
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that's a good one it's amazing extreme you can point it anywhere the first thing is probably touch myself
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so yeah I would I would I would masturbate sorry yeah you're in a hot lady's Right.
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For one day.
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Well, I'm not like walking around and being like, damn, I wanna go bang guys on the top of my head.
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It's like, now I get to do it.
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It doesn't mean I'm like gonna go, you know, like use that to like to do something that I don't wanna do ordinarily.
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You know what I mean?
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I'm such a gentleman.
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But yeah, no, I don't know.
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I mean, I would just like experience what it's like and maybe it would give me more insight into - Oh, and a feminist too.
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Yeah, yeah, sometimes.
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What was the greatest sex you've ever had?
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Was it with me?
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It was that time when I slept over.
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Oh!
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And we had that thing with the pillows.
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Oh, hey!
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And then we went to the bar afterwards.
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Yay!
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No, no, no. Exactly.
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It was definitely with you.
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When we were in your apartment, we had to wait for like three hours.
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Oh!
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Yeah, that was fun.
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Three hours wine night.
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It was great.
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More than wine.
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What was the greatest sex you ever had?
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Was it with me?
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Yeah, that's like outrageous.
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maybe like recently there's been a little tension ever since our little trip
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and i do kind of like the sex after that
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i wouldn't call it spiteful but the angry tension do you still have sexy photos
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or videos of me on your phone
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or uploaded to the cloud can i take a shot yeah whoa we're not like a photographic Couple children.
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Yeah, I don't know it's like those things are like yeah, I don't know like listen power to you That's what you enjoy like of course send those pictures
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But it's like the real thing is the real thing to the cloud is crazy, but no yeah, I still at home I mean we still live together.
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I mean, what do you expect?
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Yeah?
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So if you move out and like we're we're so done.
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We're not together anymore Are you gonna delete them or will you keep one or two?
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I'm not keeping any of that I feel it's like wrong to do
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that because like you wouldn't want me to have them.
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Disrespectful?
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Yeah, it's like disrespectful.
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Oh, this is easy.
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Who was your first kiss?
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Why didn't it work out?
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My first kiss was a girl named Nat, Natalie.
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My first kiss was a girl named Natalie.
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That's crazy.
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Okay, that's wild.
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Wow.
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Yeah, interesting.
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Who was my first kiss?
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That's when I was like six.
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Why didn't it work out?
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Because I was six.
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Yeah, really, right.
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You had other objectives in life.
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Exactly, exactly.
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I had a whole life ahead of me, so I couldn't really commit.
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You better settle down at six.
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I couldn't commit to that.
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How many people have you hooked up with?
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Zero.
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Oh, in general?
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Certainly, yeah.
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Oh, like less than 10.
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Yeah, above 10, but less than 15.
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Okay, I've lived a life.
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You're also older than me.
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Yeah, I am older.
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Who's better looking?
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Me.
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Yeah, that makes sense.
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I get it.
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Between us, who's better looking?
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I think you.
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I think it depends on, like, what someone's looking for.
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That's true.
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The male gaze and the female gaze are naturally different things.
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But I think we're both good looking.
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You're so handsome.
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And you're so beautiful.
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Thank you.
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I don't doubt that at all.
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Um, I'll take a shot.
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Damn, that kinda hurt.
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I'm sorry.
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It's chill.
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Do you think we'll be intimate again?
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Let me ask you this a second.
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Do you want to?
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I think it would probably complicate things more than anything.
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Like, I think it would.
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Like, I'm so happy that we're able to see each other today and while obviously we are both,
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there's a chemistry there beyond the social aspect.
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That always makes things complicated.
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You know what I mean?
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Do you think we'll have sex again?
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Do you want to?
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Uh, no. Not in that way.
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I'm sorry, sorry.
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Bro, take a shot.
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Take a shot.
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Take a shot.
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I don't know.
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We'll see.
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What?
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What do you mean, we'll see?
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We'll see?
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I don't know.
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Are you two having sex a lot?
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I would say, yeah, it's often.
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so you live together and you have sex with each other all the time
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and you don't date other people other people are you you
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sound like a couple we're not we're broken up we're broken up
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but we definitely toe a line that's for sure
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but we do need time apart yeah i'll just say ever
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since you ever since i kissed a girl never going back exactly they're beautiful i don't think men is in her,
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you know, realm, thought, whatever, her mind.
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I don't think so.
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Oh, that's interesting.
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Is that, did you discover some more things about yourself after the breakup?
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Yeah, I was able to, like, explore more.
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I think if he didn't break up with me, it would have just been, like, I would have been stuck in that hetero role, and I recognize that I've,
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like, experienced some frustrations with him, especially since we were in a relationship that was so heteropresenting.
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Exactly, a men and woman type.
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And I never like felt like I wanted to box myself in the girlfriend box
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and we have plenty of arguments where I was just like no like there's no way you're straight
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because then that would invalidate my identity.
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Yeah.
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And I'm happy if she is picking the right person, you know, whoever that is, in any kind of spectrum,
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you know, that person is, I'll be happy, yeah.
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Do you think we'll be intimate again?
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And do you want to?
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I think life is long.
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Yeah, I agree.
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And I anticipate knowing you for a very long time.
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Yeah.
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And I like you and I respect you, and I find you handsome.
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Me too, me too.
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And I think that you're also very emotionally intelligent and mature thank you.
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I agree.
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I feel the same way about you I think some things are just kind of spur -of -the -moment
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and like it doesn't have to be Like the coordination of it all is so like Like it's kind of yeah,
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so that's why oh so not a no from either of you.
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Thank you Blaine question
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Dare you to kiss me for old times sake are you gonna take a shot or you're gonna kiss me?
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that's crazy that you looked at the shots when's the last time you kissed this morning
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sometime today i'm sure probably like right before we walked in here yeah sure why not
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you gotta wipe that lipstick off though
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shot shot shot shot we're taking a shot we're taking a
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shot you want more yeah i'll pour it We were just discussing this, we were like, what would it take us to make out for like a good five minutes?
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How much would it take for you to take care of?
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I think we said like around 100k.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Wow!
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I dare you to kiss me for old times sake.
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I might cry.
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Like, if you want to, I would, but I will cry.
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So you have to be comfortable with that.
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Just a little peck.
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I mean, yeah, like, I'm okay with a peck.
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You don't have to.
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Can we table it and see where this goes?
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Yeah, you want to say it?
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Because I don't want to make you cry right now.
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I'm already crying.
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I know, but like more.
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Can I get a tissue?
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What do you miss most about my body?
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I'll just take the rest of the shot.
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A shot?
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You can't confidently say that?
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That's insane.
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All right.
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I miss the way you used to smell.
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Oh, yeah, that's a good one.
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You don't smell like that anymore, but...
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God, it's because we broke up.
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Yeah, it's the breakup thing.
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Exactly.
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You used to smell nice, but...
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Wow.
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Now I'm just like, oof, you smell like my brother.
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Whoa.
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I miss how big you are.
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You give the best hugs.
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You are seriously like the perfect weighted blanket.
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Awesome.
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You're just like a big guy.
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Yeah.
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And I loved that.
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Thank you.
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I know exactly what you're thinking.
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No, I'm not.
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You're not going to say it.
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It's my butt.
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I miss that, for sure.
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But it's not like the only thing I miss.
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But there's plenty of other things to miss. About my body, specifically.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, your lips, your eyes, like, you know.
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It took a little bit.
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A little bit.
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Sorry.
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You're such a stoner.
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No, I'm not.
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Former stoner.
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Former, yeah.
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Did you talk to anyone else before we ended?
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No. I didn't talk to anybody else.
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Okay.
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For three years, why would I talk to anybody else?
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if i had you at home yeah that was the same with me like no it happened right after yeah
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how soon after did you talk to this person
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about a like a week after was that her earrings yeah wait
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so why did you lie
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because i didn't want to hurt your feelings at the moment okay
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but that hurt it's like i was gonna find out regardless yeah i know i literally found out
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that you had like a box of fresh condoms
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that you ordered after we had sex that one time before our relationship ended
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and then i found out it was there was 10 missing in the box it was a pack of 30
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and there was 10 missing can you believe that
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and it's like even after then you didn't want to tell
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me no i was in a shameful period of time you know
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because obviously shameful like because obviously i end the things
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and i was like i gotta keep it down low i
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can't really hurt her anymore you know you already hurt you know
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So doing those things purely out of my instinct was not a good idea at all.
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We're very loyal.
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Yeah, I just think that that's, like, the worst thing you can do is, like, talk to someone while you're talking to somebody else.
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That's fucking awful.
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Literally, it's, like, not, it's not my biggest fear because if I fear that somebody's doing that, I'm very comfortable ending that immediately because I would just never waste my time with somebody who is doing that.
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Do you believe in, like, twin flames or, like, any of those, like, things?
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Like, there's, like, twin flames, there's, um, like, soulmates.
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Between those two, the twin flames, like, maybe, that's, like, the idea of, like, two people that are just, like, really good around each other, right?
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I think it's people that are, like, made from the same thing.
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Yeah.
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I feel like we are made from, like, extremely similar.
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I would fall, like, to believe in that more than I would in, like, soulmates.
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I think we think in similar ways, and that's important.
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And that's why we get along so well and continue to get along so well, even though we're not together, you know what I mean?
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Like, that's really important.
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Have you ever thought I cheated?
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Yeah. With who?
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Interesting.
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Has this been a detention in the past?
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Well, I'm drinking for it don't worry i think i'm just
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gonna go with the drink not talk about it any further solve it there okay i have not cheated
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and i think that's honestly a ridiculous statement with how transparent
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i've been with you i know have you ever thought of that i cheated
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yeah why why did i think you cheated yeah i think
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you crave attention from other people outside of this relationship
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that made me feel like i couldn't provide therefore you know cheating isn't outside of
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that realm yeah that's us have you ever thought that i cheated
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no is it because of an aquarius oh god no no okay cool what are three things you miss about me
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I'm just gonna drink I don't I'm sorry this is
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that doesn't even make sense why would you drink for
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that why did we break up whose fault was it it
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was a accumulation of a lot of things I don't think the fault was on anyone's
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but it was definitely more on me where I came short
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on like emotional aspects of our relationship like I think we're great as friends
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but i don't think we were like destined to be like partners romantic partners
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and i realized that way before you did
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and i just exactly as you said pulled the rug right
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up at me for you overall i think like him doing
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that allowed me to just do a lot of things
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that i didn't think i could have done in the relationship yeah yeah
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and i was able to like explore more of my queerness with
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that i was able to make more friends
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and feel like i was able to build a community outside of my focus for him yeah 100
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and i'm glad you did you know yeah i'm glad you
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did it wasn't anyone's fault yeah i agree it was literally
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just intuition both of us knew there here it was there
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wasn't a direction yeah there was no end in sight yeah
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because i was living where i was you were living
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when there was no like progression inside there was no it was just it was like stagnation like we had
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that conversation before we had actually broken up where you were
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talking about the idea of potentially moving away from your family
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and everything and
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that was like to be honest one of the first like
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catalysts for me to even consider the idea of like i am not going to prevent somebody
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that i've known for a month
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and a half from making a major life decision like a
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huge important like very very very important decision that's like not fair you know i hate
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that you're gonna have to take another shot why did we
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break up whose fault was it that's the one thing we
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agreed not to talk what do you two feel comfortable saying why you broke up absolutely nothing about it yeah
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that was the one thing you know i
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that was the one thing i'd say i would drink for
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so i will drink for
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that i don't care how much i have to what's the
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vaguest reason without going i won't i won't say it on
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uh i won't say it recording yeah i said we just didn't align
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because you broke up with me over like a stupid reason
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and then we got back together like 12 hours later on christmas eve
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and i was i was like done at that point
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because i was like who the breaks up with you on christmas eve that's
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so messed up yeah it was also messed up what was came before
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that but i'm not gonna say that on camera and that you know what you
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i'll keep my mouth shut from here it's convoluted that's a light way to put it yeah
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this is so weird yeah it's the weirdest thing in the world Blaine's eating it all oh my god Blaine please leave
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what part of the breakup hurt you the most
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Fleabag fleabag fleabag okay he kept saying every time I'm like
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oh like you know I don't think like I'll ever get
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over this like whatever whatever like I'm just like pouring out my emotions for him
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and he kept saying it'll pass it'll pass exactly it's like
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week one into like the breakup he kept saying like yeah i was referencing fleabag
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and was he right i mean yes
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but like also it's like you could have like handled it
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better i know i know i know i could have what part of the breakup hurt you the most Probably,
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you were a phone caller, and I think talking to you, hearing your voice, that was hard.
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Yeah.
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And obviously we're friends now, but you were, in those three months, you became such a big part of my life,
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we were talking every single day, multiple times a day right right
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and it was just like so much fun yeah
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and i like to be honest wasn't a phone caller always
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i don't know i just felt like i just like didn't want to mince words
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or like waste time texting you oh what part of the breakup hurt you the most Are you okay?
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Definitely not.
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Do you need my hand?
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You're doing great, okay?
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You don't have to say anything you're uncomfortable with, okay?
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Is there something you regret not saying when we ended things?
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I don't think so.
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Like, I think you know how I felt.
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And I think you still know how I feel and, like, how grateful I am that we got to meet each other.
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Did I tell you that I really, like, I really wanted it to work?
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Yeah.
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Like, I really, I wanted it to work so badly.
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I agree.
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I don't think that we were on the same page.
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We only dated for three months.
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I'm telling you, it's the magic of the box.
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It's unbelievable.
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Oh, my God, dude.
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Yeah.
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Do you still have feelings for me?
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Do you love me?
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I, yeah, kind of pathetic to admit.
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I tell you I love you every day.
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I still have feelings for you.
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They're different.
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I don't have feelings for you like that, man.
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No homo, but, like, no. Yeah, that's a good thing.
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Like, you saw that we could have been better friends than lovers.
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Mm -hmm.
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And I totally agree.
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Yeah.
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After us taking shrooms.
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Yeah.
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You know?
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Do you still have feelings for me?
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And do you love me?
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I don't love you.
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Yeah.
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I'm not sure if I've ever been in love with anybody, truly.
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I think it's a really difficult concept to kind of quantify or, like, to actually, like, put into words.
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It's something you choose.
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What do you miss most about being together?
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I miss not being confused all the time.
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It's like we're so close to a relationship, yet we're not in a relationship.
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I feel like it just makes everything else harder.
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I'm not surprised.
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What do you miss about being in a relationship?
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Trusting you.
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You can't trust me as a friend?
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I can't trust you as a friend.
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I don't trust you emotionally anymore. That makes sense.
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OK, we're revisiting this.
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I dare you to kiss me for old time's sake.
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What's the dare?
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It says, I dare you.
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I think one quick peck is fine.
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I agree.
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OK.
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Ready?
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There you go.
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Easy peasy.
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I have one last thing.
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I'm going to give you a card.
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Yes.
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You're going to write on this.
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And we're going to have you guys decide the future of your relationship.
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You have three options to write down.
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Try again, stay friends, or cut contact.
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After you write it down, you'll show your answer on the count of three.
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three two one stay friends
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especially after this do you think there's any possibility of us
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getting back together no ever probably not i don't know maybe maybe it should like
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crazy things happen do you want to keep what we have going I don't think so. That makes sense.
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Three, two, one.
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Staying friends!
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Three, two, one.
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I said stay friends.
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But what's down there?
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I said, are you married to NYC?
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I wrote stay friends with a heart, because I felt like stay friends felt too cold.
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I think just geography -wise, with you being there and me being here, that's a definitive line.
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I can't, yeah.
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Could you see a world when you moved to LA?
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I could definitely see a world when I moved to LA.
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What's the likelihood if you were to move to the same city that you two would get back together?
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the likelihood would rise a lot would we end up together I don't know
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This video has 487 sentences and 4110 words to shadow. The speech runs for 24:59. The speaker talks at a natural 164 words per minute, close to everyday conversation. 85% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start.
Key vocabulary in this video
15 words from the video worth learning, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| breakup noun | /ˈbɹeɪk.ʌp/ | The act of breaking up; disintegration or division. |
| hook noun | /hʊk/ | A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. |
| cheat verb | /ˈt͡ʃiːt/ | To violate rules in order to gain, or attempt to gain, advantage from a situation. |
| dare verb | /dɛ(ə)ɹ/ | To have enough courage (to do something). |
| intimate adjective | /ˈɪn.tɪ.mət/ | Closely acquainted; familiar. |
| sake noun | /ˈseɪ̯k/ | Cause, interest or account. |
| twin noun | /twɪn/ | Either of two people (or, less commonly, animals) who shared the same uterus at the same time; one who was born at the same birth as a sibling. |
| invite verb | /ɪnˈvaɪt/ | To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something. |
| flame noun | /fleɪm/ | The visible part of fire; a stream of burning vapour or gas, emitting light and heat. |
| cloud noun | /ˈklaʊ̯d/ | A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air. |
| aspect noun | /ˈæspɛkt/ | Any specific feature, part, or element of something. |
| chemistry noun | /ˈkɛm.ɪ.stɹi/ | The branch of natural science that deals with the composition and constitution of substances and the changes that they undergo as a consequence of alterations… |
| commit verb | /kəˈmɪt/ | To give in trust; to put into charge or keeping; to entrust; to consign; used with to or formerly unto. |
| explore verb | /ɪkˈsploɹ/ | To examine or investigate something systematically. |
| handsome adjective | /ˈhæn.səm/ | Having a pleasing appearance, good-looking, attractive, particularly |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| break up verb | To break or separate into pieces. |
| get back verb | Return to where one came from. |
| find out verb | To discover, as by asking or investigating. |
| hook up verb | To assemble the parts of a mechanism, especially by connecting wires. |
| get along verb | To interact or coexist well, without argument or trouble. |
| go back verb | To return to a place or state after having been there at a previous time. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| make out with verb | See make out, with. |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 184 contractions and reduced forms, such as don't, I'm, we're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: tension /ˈtɛnʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, shameful /ˈʃeɪmfəl/, shock /ʃɔk/, potentially /pəˈtɛnʃ(ə)li/
- Long words — get the stress right: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, disrespectful /dɪs.ɹɪˈspɛkt.fəl/, naturally /ˈnæt͡ʃ.(ə.)ɹə.li/, complicated /ˈkɑm.plɪˌkeɪ.tɪd/, ridiculous /ɹɪˈdɪk.jə.ləs/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like breakup, hook, cheat.
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Conditional sentences if + clause, will/would + verb — a condition and its result | if you want to, I would |
| “Used to” used to + verb — a past habit or state that is no longer true | used to smell |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've made · have hooked · you've seen |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | are broken · have been stuck · are made |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.