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Your Story Is What Makes You You. There’s No Need To Hide It.
Meet Steve. Steve is a character in the TV show “Shameless” that my girlfriend and I have been enjoying recently. He’s a charming dude, and it takes about half an episode for the main character of the show, Fiona, to fall for him. He’s mysterious: always has a lot of money, but never tells his partner where he’s getting it from. Fiona never gets to meet his family, or understand where he’s going, or … well, she doesn’t really learn anything about him, or his story.
Oh, and there’s another major caveat: his name isn’t actually Steve. It’s Jimmy, and he has a lot more to hide.
Needless to say, the relationship eventually falters. How couldn’t it? How are you supposed to date someone that you don’t even know?
Another thing: does this story sound familiar? A girl brings her boyfriend of over a year back home, and they go to dinner with her best friends. Her friends, as good friends would do, started sharing stories about their college times, about the good old days.
That is, until the girl gets really angry at her friends: “why are you telling these stories? I don’t want my boyfriend to hear all this.”
Excuse me — what?!
Jimmy and Fiona didn’t work out, because the mystery was too much to bear — and you cannot live…
