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I mean, crushes that you saw all the time and you were close with, and ones that weren't good people. My ex-crush, this Polish girl I nickname "Helen" on here, turned out to be a Christian with internalized homophobia and was an ableist asshole who hated special education students and made fun of me behind my back.

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[–] astraeus@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

It just sort of happens naturally after you process that realistically you wouldn’t have been compatible with who they really are in the first place anyway/it would’ve ended REALLY badly.

Maybe you still think about them from time to time, but it doesn’t hurt.