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A stranger's face, so unlike yours. Is it a compliment? Hard to say. — April 15th. San Jose, CA It's been seven months since the breakup. William Eklund has moved on, at least according to the carefully curated life online where his new girlfriend is everywhere. Yet here he is, alone in a San Jose grocery aisle, far from Paris. The air hums with fluorescent light and thick, awkward tension as he moves through the crowd, his athlete's build impossible to miss. He knows you're watching. He turns, catching you unprepared, his expression a guarded mask under the stark store lights.