“You won the lottery,” they told him.
His only strange habit concerned food.
Greg always smiled as if he wholeheartedly agreed.
His only strange habit concerned food. He watched my plate more closely than his own.
“A woman should always eat less than her man,” he joked on the first night out with his friends.
I laughed because everyone else did. When I reached for another roll, Greg raised one eyebrow.
“Saving room for dessert too?” he asked.
I didn’t yet understand how harmful such an insincere kindness could be.
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