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She Told Me She Was Single
And I believed her until I got an angry text from her boyfriend.
“I’d love it if you came home with me.”
She laughed and shook her head.
“Shut up…”
She said, not believing I was serious.
“Alright…”
I said as I handed her a piece of paper with my number on it.
“In case you change your mind.”
I had learned to stop giving a fuck about the outcome with women a long time before I met Allison.
Before I settled down and started a family, my “pick-up strategy” (if you can even call it that) was to just connect, banter, and be forthright with my intentions.
It worked well enough not to mess with the system.
And sometimes so well that I probably should have tweaked it to weed out dishonest women.
This was one of those times.
My Phone Buzzed With a Text Message
It was 1:30 am and I had just gotten home from the bar.
My teeth were brushed and I was slipping into my bed when my phone buzzed with a text message.
