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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="645af28f1e1b8a5a7a68579f57c23e35""Aw, that's really sweet," Sophie said. "PJ and I tried to keep our relationship off camera as much as possible, but once you're married it's kind of hard. It is hard when so many people can be judgmental about it, but I'm glad you guys are happy." I smiled at her, but then my head sunk when I remembered that I was putting off looking at a lot of comments for that very reason. Dan disappeared into the bathroom and I continued to help clean up. It was starting to get dark and Mylo had already left so we decided it was time for us to go. The three of us jumped back in a cab and went home. It was weird. On the ride here I had one pretend boyfriend, and on the way back I have one pretend boyfriend and one potential boyfriend. I still had two amazing friends and one complicated set of circumstances, but I'm glad both of them wanted to keep everything a secret to everyone else and not share how much I'm having to lie. When we got home I cleaned up, got into my pjs, and we all sat around the couch. Dan was in his usual spot where he had made a very clear, Dan-shaped sofa crease and I took a spot on the floor next to Phil's feet at the other end of the couch./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="ad53bd4f8e000706e6b9f7e50e7f1453"Night :*/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="f78545db6bee11badac99509be211d28"Night. I had a great day. Trrw is going to be even better :)/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #555555;" data-p-id="645af28f1e1b8a5a7a68579f57c23e35""Aw, that's really sweet," Sophie said. "PJ and I tried to keep our relationship off camera as much as possible, but once you're married it's kind of hard. It is hard when so many people can be judgmental about it, but I'm glad you guys are happy." I smiled at her, but then my head sunk when I remembered that I was putting off looking at a lot of comments for that very reason. Dan disappeared into the bathroom and I continued to help clean up. It was starting to get dark and Mylo had already left so we decided it was time for us to go. The three of us jumped back in a cab and went home. It was weird. On the ride here I had one pretend boyfriend, and on the way back I have one pretend boyfriend and one potential boyfriend. I still had two amazing friends and one complicated set of circumstances, but I'm glad both of them wanted to keep everything a secret to everyone else and not share how much I'm having to lie. When we got home I cleaned up, got into my pjs, and we all sat around the couch. Dan was in his usual spot where he had made a very clear, Dan-shaped sofa crease and I took a spot on the floor next to Phil's feet at the other end of the couch./p
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