It is easy to see in retrospect that what I longed for was not a boyfriend but a version of me without my defects – a man in whom I could see myself as flawless, a man whose jokes always caused riotous laughter instead of sometimes falling flat, whose German was fluent instead of passable, who actually knew everything instead of pretending to and then Googling it when he got home.
-Joel Derfner
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