based on a true story

Earlier in Friday evening, over beers with atalanta and mrzero I was talking about Jason and Alexis' wedding and this conversation I had with one of the guests, T, who was asking me if I was bride or groom. "Groom's, I suppose," I said to her, "Lived with him once, a few years ago, but I knew Alexis from before then, I think. Or maybe it was around the time that Jason moved in with us. Doesn't matter, really. I was friends with both of them when they were single, back when I knew of Alexis as Atalanta's friend who was still living in Philadelphia, and making the occasional trip up to Boston to hang out with her. Though, the occasional trips didn't last too long. Alexis met Jason at a brunch that I held at my old apartment, they started talking, and less than a year later, she moved up here."

"So you get the credit then," T. said as she sipped her wine.

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