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“Everything okay?” I asked.
“Yeah.”
The answer came too quickly.
I sat beside him anyway.
After a long silence, he shrugged and asked, “Do you think some people are just born unlikable?”
The question hit me like a punch to the chest.
I wanted to tell him he was wrong. I wanted to give him one of those reassuring speeches parents always keep ready for moments like that.
Instead, I asked, “Why would you think that?”
He shrugged again.
“No reason.”
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