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- Dialogue between me and paula at a Borders Bookstore over

coffee -

ME: Hey Paula, are you excited for your upcoming competition?

PAULA: No, not really, Jason's making everything so difficul around here - he won't

let me just have time for myself - I'm lucky to be here now! haha, how havbe you

been?

Me: Good, I just wish you had more strength to ignore that surfing idiot, you're too

good for him anyways.

PAULA: I know, sometimes i feel in my heart that I can overcome his temptations, but

it's just so hard.

ME: I think you should really look into what YOU want to do, and what YOU need,

rather than satisfying Jason all the time, Paula.

PAULA: I know,I know.

Me: Well, I just hope your getting alot of rest tonight, right?

PAULA: Actually, i am going to dinner with Jason, I guess it's his birthday!

ME: yeah, okay Paula, or just another reason for him to get drunk.

PAULA: You're probably right thats the sad thing, and all he wnts all the time is to

have sex, its like he doesn't even like me for me anymore.

ME: Wow, you just keep adding more reasons to the basket of WHY YOU SHOULD LEAVE

THIS GUY!It seems like every time you take some spotlight, he crashes into the

picture making it seem like it was all his fault, and everything was/is made because

of his very being. I gotta say, I really hate this guy. You're too soft to handle

these idiots Paula, i can't tell you what kind of bad news this guy could bring into

your life. You have a lot going for you, don't blow it all away over some idiot

like Jason...Look at the difference! Your intelligent, friendly, you have set goals,

you exorcise and have a lot of supoortive friends, and Jason! There is no

comparison, he's a dumb surfer, who smokes his life away, and sucks the good out of

your own world and he is defintely the most self centered person I've ever met.

Common, be real about this, he's not right for you...

PAULA: Well, I never looked at it that way, I mean he does treat me like royal crap,

haha.

ME: EXACTLY!

PAULA: I'll think about it, thanks for all your advice - we will just see how good

this "Birthday dinner" will turn out to be.

ME: Haha, well make the right choices, NO MORE GIVING IN.

PAULA: I just don't think I can do this, he is so convincing.

ME: Stay on top of your game, Paula, don't let him win! It's only giving him more

satisfaction than he already recieves from you!

PAULA: Okay! Thanks, talk to you soon.

ME: Bye.