On Sorting Out What I Really Want--or, When Big Expectations Meet a Heart that's Too Small

The Current Guest Bedroom, for those who forgot

So a great many readers are female and also ridiculously attractive. Y'all know who you are.

Anyway, I woke up thinking of one of the Collective Female Y'all especially much this morning. She's brown and lives in another country and came from yet another one and had curly hair and this VOICE that...well, iono. Every time she does a video clip my first gut reaction is OMG I JUST WANNA SQUISH YOU COME TO AMEERKA PINCH PINCH PINCH PINCH PINCH and I've had to stop myself from saying that aloud, cuz well YOU know. She's an actual Adult Human Being with Real Feelings and all. Which leaves me to sit in my hometown and think that to my damn self, and wonder how Fate packed anywhere near that much adorableness into One Adult Person.

But she's also a super-intrepid Solo World traveler, who's bounced in and out of hostels and stranger's couches and The Whole Nine. And one part of Me Wondered, How would I get some Ridiculously Adorable Gal like her in my third bedroom as a guest? Cuz wouldn't that be nice?

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