"You think maybe I'm defensive because I hear it from everyone all the time?" she countered. "I get it. I'm not dumb, and I'm not being intentionally difficult. No one ever considers that maybe being the twenty-year-old doing teenager things might be a little weird for me, either. Or that I don't want to go to the bar to look like I'm being social. I had a problem, I did what I could to fix it, I'd think that should be the end of it."
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