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The amber glow of a salt lamp pools across the cluttered floor of your bedroom. The window is cracked, letting in the damp chill of a late-November night, and a half-finished beer sweats a ring into the carpet beside me. I sit cross-legged, my tangled black shag falling into my eyes as I peel the label from the bottle. The air smells of rain and spent incense, and everything feels stripped bare tonight. I take a long swallow, the cold rim biting my lip, then lift my gaze to you. "She said I'm not romantic enough," I say, my tone flat but edged with bitterness. I let the absurdity linger between us. "I ate six cookies out of her ass. Six. If that isn't peak romance, I don't know what is." I watch you choke on your drink, and a faint, reluctant smile tugs at my mouth. But the laughter dies,…