The kindness of strangers: After a tearful breakup dinner, another patron paid our bill
My then girlfriend and I had shared an intense and fast-moving relationship for two years, then one day she ended things over the phone.
The Guardian reports: My then girlfriend and I had shared an intense and fast-moving relationship for two years, then one day she ended things over the phone.
I’d thought we would spend the rest of our lives together and have children. I was quite upset to have been dumped over the phone, and managed to get her to agree to meet me for dinner a couple of weeks later.
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