Just Passersby

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To prepare a birthday surprise for Caleb I, I flew back from New York to Boston ahead of schedule.

To kill time in the Uber to his Brookline apartment, I mindlessly scrolled through Reddit.

A trending post in a relationship advice subreddit caught my eye.

The title was: [Today I messed up. I fell for a guy with a girlfriend. But I’m going to confess my feelings on his birthday. AITAH?]

The comments were a bloodbath, a sea of "red flag" and "run, girl, run."

Trying to win people over, th