like i was 22. they were 25. they always made top/bottom jokes out loud, to people’s faces. they would talk about how they would get drunk and watch hazbin hotel with their partner. they repeatedly told me—cis woman, reiterating—that i “seemed like the nonbinary type.” i was the only one they singled out for this. typing this out sounds like an exaggerated caricature done by a bigot but i’m not joking.

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