1. shredded slivers of past lover’s heart are clearly embedded in spaces between teeth but person claims that this is chicken
2. you each have competing versions of what constitutes reality
3. people who know them look past you with hollow eyes when it is announced that you are indeed involved with this particular individual
4. people who know them are in fact excruciatingly and overwhelming nice, sweet and welcoming of you into the fold after having just met you only once, as though trying to make you steelier for some impending tragedy
5. person squirms a lot
6. person just has way too many friends, whether of the opposite sex or not and is not reclusive enough
7. when things implode into the proverbial shit storm, you marvel at that irony that you can at long last place what that stench was
8. person has a long track record of exes that are never to be seen again, shrouded in a cloud of mystery and offers little or no details upon inquiry
9. person is never reciprocal—ever
10. person’s family members always strike you as being embroiled in some kind of vicious inner turmoil, as though they really long to tell you something but just, can’t
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