Jul 27, 2023
“Okay,” Eddie says. “I feel like you’re sending me really mixed signals, Richie. And I’m trying to respect that you said no to me but I don’t know what the boundaries are. And it would really help me if you’d either explicitly say that you don’t - you don’t - like me, or that you do but there’s a specific reason you don’t want to act on it, or that you want to wait longer to act on it. I’ll respect whatever the answer is, and I’m sorry for not asking sooner. I was just. Scared and embarrassed to bring it up. But I don’t understand what you want me to be doing here.”
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