the best way to make it through with hearts and wrists intact

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"Is that what we call him now, 'boss'?"

"What the - no, I -"

There's five thousand words spilling out of her head and every letter snags at her throat. She wants to tell him that no she doesn't call him that, no she wouldn't have told him that he called when they're using voice coms on loudspeaker like that, actually he doesn't have to call to ask how she is because he knows because they -

- but then she realizes that she'd only be telling him that she's not doing what she says she will and what he says she should do, so she bites her lip and shuts up.

What was that quote that he sent her, like, last week?

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is to realize that two out of three aint bad

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"Friendship is just giving each other the same advice and no one taking it."