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 Yeah, that’s mine. The first date (and to an extent the next two) I was playing with her and acting like it was a practice run for a “real date”. Was a fun little bit to keep running, because I got to joke around and compliment her good points to build her up without it seeming like I was fawning over her. Stuff like “now see? That’s a cute laugh, when you do all this for real make sure you break that out on the guy” 

When we first met her coworkers were backing me up to go out, too, I offered but if there weren’t a couple people holding her accountable for how things went the next day, she probably would have gotten all nervous and cancelled on me. Had to be strongarmed into it a little bit, because she was so stuck in her own head