Now I can see that he knew that I was ambitious and excited about degrees and careers and volunteer work and language learning and physical fitness and healthy eating and gatherings with friends. But I didn't know that he wasn't.

He knew that he lacked any and all confidence; that he was deliberately cruel to me so that I wouldn't excel, while I blindly believed that he'd come with me into a bright future.

Eventually I got tired of his cowardice and left.

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