“Oh Garance, Garance!!! I’m SO HAPPY to see you! I’ve missed you so very much! Have you changed your number? You are SO BEAUTIFUL!!!”
I was surprised. I’m not that beautiful, and I’m very easy to contact. But at this point she had tears in her eyes. I felt… Embarrassed.
I had a very old grudge against this woman. Very, very, very old.
But as you’ll see in the next paragraph, no grudge of mine can withstand a deluge of flattery. Two more minutes of this, and I was already revising my resentment.
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You might want to know what my grudge was about.