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boyfriend's ex girlfriend won't go away

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I had a horrendous realization recently: I look a lot like my boyfriend’s ex. Like, a lot a lot. I didn’t look her up, per say. I didn’t go on some rabbit hole hunt through the long and perilous vacuum that is social media. I just recently saw someone post on his best friend’s Facebook wall (I’m friends with this guy on FB, too, so I got the update), and the name of the poster rung a bell for me. Oooooh yes. This is my boyfriend’s ex girlfriend. I knew she was in some vague way on the outskirts of their social circle. I remember mention of her name once, years ago. I had never made a point to go find her online, but there she was just…presenting herself to be clicked on. So, I did (oh come on you would have, too!) And while I worried I may find something upsetting (like that she was a flat earth believer or a self-proclaimed witch), I didn’t expect to find this: we’re nearly the spitting image of each other. Yikes. Here’s how discovering you look like your man’s ex affects you.

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It puts a new spin on “You’re my type”

I remember one night when my boyfriend and I were out, and I was wearing an outfit he particularly liked, he said something cute and flirty like, “If I didn’t know you, and saw you in this, I’d hit on you—you look so cute and, plus, you’re just my type.” At the time I thought “Aaaw!” and now, knowing just how much “his type” I am I think, “AaaaAAAAhhhheeeeeew. Eww.”

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