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Science of Friendship

Kyler Shumway

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“If you met your soulmate for the first time today, would they want to be with you? What I didn’t know then, that I know, is that the thing that needed to change was not, in fact, my appearance, or my charm. Instead, what needed to change was the anticipation of rejection. I believed that my soulmate would not accept me for who I was, because I did not accept myself.”