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DAVE STRIDER

consider this your warning about stairs. itll just keep happening bro. im telling you man

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I mean, we have been makin' a habit of missing special couple things this year so...

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If you mean Valentine's Day I wouldn't exactly say that was our fault?

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June 8th was national best friends day.

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Wait is that a real thing?

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Yes, but I'm obviously just teasing you. Pretty much any day with you is worth some kinda celebration.

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[A more startled laugh, but it's happy all the same.] That's...wow. [He looks at him curiously.] And you wonder why I want to spend the rest of eternity with you.

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I figure it's because I'm the hottest blond you know.

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That's a bonus, but not quite. Everything about you is pretty much everything I want. That's all.

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...well. Hopefully you don't wonder why I'm fixated on you.

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I do sometimes, but ultimately I don't think it matters because you love me and that's the important part.

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You've always made me feel more okay than anyone else.

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I hope that continues to be a thing. I like when you talk to me about things.

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It's not the talking. I mean, that helps, sure. I mean you as a person just being you. You say things or do things that just work. It's one of the million reasons why I like you.

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...I hope that's true for always. You know you're very important to me, don't you?

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I've pretty much always known that. I mean...for a while here I wasn't sure. When you got here. But I've always known I'm your best friend. I like knowin' I have the other part too, though.

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Yeah...you have so many parts of me no one else even gets to touch. It's kind of cool to think about.

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Our friendship was always like that, y'know.

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Parts that are untouchable by everyone else?

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Yes. You owned a huge piece of me even before you sent me these. [ he flicks the frames on his face. ] After that...well.

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I wish I had realized it much sooner than I did. I think about that sometimes. But I know we've talked about this...it would have been different timing.

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Like only catching on once I wasn't the me you knew and also was in a relationship?

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...yeah. That. [A pout.] I don't even know like...I think maybe even back then I didn't realize I had feelings for you and just got stupid and weird about it. Who knows?

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I'm pretty sure you could have gone an entire lifetime without noticin'. You've leveled up.

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And now it's been six really, really awesome months I wouldn't trade out. I think I like leveling up.

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...I do, too. I wouldn't have told you ever back then.