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Ahhh Westchester County... Just triggered me to a memory from a year ago where I had this strange long distance online dating pseudo-relationship with a girl who owned her own apartment out there, which I found to be a fete considering many people can hardly afford to rent in that area, nevermind own. She was completely fine with us just having this text-based relationship that carried on for about two months, day and night. She was honestly sweet, smart, and such a lovely person both inside and out, but she had one glaring downside, and that was an extreme case of anti-social behavior spawned by a very serious case of depression. Things ended very oddly when the lead singer of Soundgarden passed away, and that was a favorite band of hers, and she wasn't always good at taking her medication, so it would throw her off balance. She later texted me having an existential meltdown because she had stumbled upon a dead goose on her walk, and it made her terribly sad because of Chris Cornell's passing. I knew it was only a matter of time before she ended whatever it was she and I had, because when she became emotionally vulnerable, she'd rather push people away, so maybe a week or two later we were talking about childhood pets, and I jokingly said I was upset about how she didn't know enough about guinea pigs, and she thought I was honestly mad, and when I revealed I wasn't, she sent me this page-long kissoff. It was truly bizarre. She was beautiful, but so, so fragile and built with a steel wall around her to prevent anyone from actually getting close to her, physically or emotionally. We met on OkCupid.

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