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[MUSIC] Domics Introduction
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A lot of us have been there.
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You meet a stranger, you take an interest in them,
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And they don't reciprocate; their eyes are locked on someone else and that someone happens to be your friend.
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You don't want to ruin any friendships, so you back off. You then suppress your feelings,
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And hope that one day, you'll move on or at least tolerate it just enough to no longer be a hindrance in your life.
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This is my story with Estelle.
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Technically this would be more like 2.5, but the break-up happened post Erin Kim. Technically. It wasn't exactly a breakup,
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Technically it wasn't even a relationship, but she's earned her spot.
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So you guys remember my involvement with Jessica,
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And how we met. I mentioned she was with her group of friends at that town fair. There were four of them to be exact.
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The tiny one was Estelle. In my endeavor to familiarize myself with Jessica, it meant getting to know her friends as well.
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During all that. I ended up getting along pretty well with Estelle. At the time,
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She was this tiny shrimp of a female; about 4'10. I used to be able to rest my chin on her head.
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She was adorable. Our first encounters were pretty awkward at first.
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I was trying to break out of my shell she remained in hers, the timid type.
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I spent a lot of my summer hanging out with Jessica and her friends,
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so I guess we all got pretty comfortable with each other. At the time,
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I never really considered Estelle taking an interest in me because I always overheard her friends teasing her about some guy named..
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Bradley. I assumed she had a crush on him. I was wrong, well partially.
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Summer ended and my final year of high school began. Before Jessica
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and I got together, I remember Estelle and I talking pretty often. We weren't best friends or anything, but we were tight!
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However once the shallow prick and I started dating, my interactions with Estelle
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lessened and eventually became very occasional throughout the school year.
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I remained oblivious to her feelings, or,
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maybe I didn't but chose not to make it apparent to avoid a confrontation.
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There was one time
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I was at Jessica's locker at the end of the day.
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Estelle was walking by, and as soon as I was in sight, she suddenly ran up to me and gave me a hug.
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I took it as a friendly gesture. I guess we haven't talked to each other much at the time.
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Jessica, on the other hand, saw it as a threat - as
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"competition". I assured her she was my only interest, but she took further precautions because she cray cray!
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I guess she had her own talk with Estelle, because soon after Estelle and I kind of stopped talking,
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as if our interactions were scarce enough already. When Jessica
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and I broke up, I felt the need to distance myself from her and the others. My immature teenage logic dictated that I blamed them
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All for Jessica's Decision, believe me.
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Estelle and I completely stopped talking, in fact she got together with Bradley. They didn't last very long, but I was happy for her.
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I met Erin soon after and you all know how that turned out.
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I was then back in Canada suffering in a four-year university program.
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I visited Virginia multiple times over the years, but because they weren't very extensive,
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I only got to see a few people. And
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then, in the summer of
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2010, I planned another visit to Virginia. By that time I drifted a bit from several of my friends, and a lot of their schedules
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didn't exactly line up with my visits. Keep in mind Erin
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and I were still kind of grudgy with each other, so she wasn't exactly someone I thought about visiting,
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and then I remembered Estelle.
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Hey long time no talk, or see, but do you have any plans next month?
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[Music] To be continued..