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All right, so imagine you just start dating somebody. Actually, you're not even dating them.

Like, you're just referring to them as like a casual fling.

And they send you a cease and desist letter.

Please explain Rebecca.

Yeah, it happened to my best friend in the whole world.

Her name is Bailey.

I've known her since kindergarten.

She's allegedly pretty smart.

Just not when it comes to men. She's always been a little bit of a dumb dumb when it comes to guys.

We all have our weak spot girl. I don't know. It's like at this point, it's not even like a pattern the way that she chooses the wrong guy.

It's like a personal choice.

But the last person that she was seeing, we'll call him Jake.

He really took the cake.

So she had only been seeing him for three weeks.

Okay. And just like most of the men that she starts seeing, the first date is great.

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