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Welcome to Just Break Up, the podcast about love, heartbreak, and all the relationship advice you don't want to hear.

My name is Sierra de Mulder.

And I'm Sam Blackwell.

And today we're going to answer a letter from somebody who's hurt that her ex won't be her friend.

But before we begin, we just want to give you our Surgeon General's warning, which is that Sierra and I are not licensed mental health practitioners. No, we're not professionals. We are not trained in any of this.

So please take our advice as you see fit. We're only here to offer our humble musings. So hopefully shed some understanding and maybe some laughs, hypothetically.

On the incredibly rewarding but mostly confusing experience that is love.

All right.

Today's letter is coming to us from Romantic Villain, which I love.

I love that title.

Whose pronouns are she, her, who is writing to us from Memory Town, Germany.

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