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It's a word, it's a verb to ditch. i t c h to ditch to ditch someone have you ever ditched anybody i have been ditched before what does it mean to ditch somebody does it sound like a nice expression no it's

it probably doesn't it sounds a little bit hard right yeah and it's actually not a nice word

to ditch somebody means to leave somebody to run away from somebody so that they cannot follow you, so that they cannot be with you.

Okay?

So to ditch somebody means to lose somebody.

So I'll give you a simple example.

When I was young, 14 years old, yeah,

you know, I'm a boy. Or I was. My sister, she was seven years younger. She was seven years old. So when I was 14 years old and I went to the movies, sometimes my mother forced me to take my sister.

Can you imagine how embarrassed I was?

I'm a 14 year old boy.

You know, I'm trying to be cool going to the movies and I have to bring my little sister oh it's

terrible so I did I took my sister to the movie theater I bought her ticket and then I ditched her

I left her all alone so she had to go into the theater. She had to find a seat.

She had to buy her own popcorn. She had to go to the bathroom by herself. And she had to go home by herself.

Was I a good brother or a bad brother?

I know. I was a terrible brother.

I was horrible. I know.

But it's reality.

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