{"id":4456,"date":"2014-03-14T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michellejolin.com\/wordpress\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2014-03-13T20:45:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T03:45:07","slug":"imaginary-misunderstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michellejolin.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Imaginary misunderstanding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cold.<br \/>\nSometimes you are.<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nSometimes you&#8217;re cold.<br \/>\nCold?<br \/>\nYeah. Sometimes you&#8217;re kind of cold.<br \/>\nWow. OK. I just meant that I forgot to wear a jacket. What do you mean sometimes I&#8217;m cold? Like emotionally?<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHow am I cold?<br \/>\nYou just said. Physically.<br \/>\nAh.<br \/>\nWhat?<br \/>\nNothing.<br \/>\nWhat!?<br \/>\nAre you doing this just to piss me off?<br \/>\nDoing what?<br \/>\nBecause I can&#8217;t decide if you are really that clueless or if you&#8217;re just getting off on being a button pusher today.<br \/>\nWhat!?<br \/>\nI&#8217;m not emotionally cold at all right now, just so you know.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s good.<br \/>\nIs it?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re not going to even try to explain what you meant, are you?<br \/>\nAre you kidding?<br \/>\nNo.<br \/>\nI value my life too much.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s a good thing I like your family.<br \/>\nWhy?<br \/>\nBecause it&#8217;s keeping me from strangling you through the phone.<br \/>\nYou couldn&#8217;t anyway.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re right. It&#8217;d be much more satisfying in person.<br \/>\nThat was cold. See?<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ll be cold shortly after I kill you.<br \/>\nRoom temperature, anyway.<br \/>\nDick.<br \/>\nI love you.<br \/>\nSuch a dick.<br \/>\nYou love me, too.<br \/>\nThere must be something wrong with me.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re perfect, as long as you remember your jacket.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not too late for me to kill you, you know.<br \/>\nNah. You&#8217;d have done it already. You&#8217;re used to me now.<br \/>\nBaby, there IS no getting used to you.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s one of your favorite things about me.<br \/>\nNo. My favorite thing about you is that you make me laugh.<br \/>\nLike now?<br \/>\nRight now it&#8217;s more of a grimace.<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s not like a laugh at all.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re doing a really shitty job.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s more of a hobby.<br \/>\nThere you go. That made me laugh.<br \/>\nGood girl.<br \/>\nGet off my phone.<br \/>\nYou called me, remember?<br \/>\nGood-bye George.<br \/>\nGood-bye, Clarence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cold. Sometimes you are. What? Sometimes you&#8217;re cold. Cold? Yeah. Sometimes you&#8217;re kind of cold. Wow. OK. I just meant that I forgot to wear a jacket. What do you mean sometimes I&#8217;m cold? Like emotionally? &#8230; &#8230; How am I cold? You just said. Physically. Ah. What? Nothing. What!? 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