When I give gifts, they are deeply thoughtful gifts, and so when they got their typewriter and loved it so much.. it was very upsetting that a few days later they did the thing they did and ruined how I saw them.

I wish I were not so perceptive. I wish I had not gained their trust enough for them to think they could be their unfilered self if that meant they showed how fake and sexist and selfishly opportunistic they had been all their life.

"Never meet your heroes", friends.