When I was just out of college, I made a list of 17 characteristics my future boyfriend would need to possess to be worthy of my love.
My list was written in blue felt tip pen on the back of an envelope I took from the desk at my temp job as a receptionist, a job I would later quit when my boss wouldn’t let me leave early to meet my friends at a bar on New Year’s Eve. Yet the concept that maybe I had some work to do on myself never entered my mind.
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