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Holy shit - this chick doesn’t know who Swaee’s dad is?! GIRL.

I have friends who work in restaurants - they say the same.

This guy Anthony sounds like he just got out of prison. I think there was an In Living Color sketch about it; he sounds like that.

Here! I’ll catch up!

Yikes!

Yeah. He wasn’t saying “you’re beautiful without it but you do you,” he was forbidding her from wearing it, which is gross. I’m on the record as thinking she looks better without it and/or with less of it, but she’s an adult and as she says, if she wants to wear makeup, she’s gonna wear makeup. He doesn’t get to tell her she can’t. I can see him being very popular with a certain kind of woman. The fireman/good ol’ boy thing is very appealing to some. I just realized I don’t know what Izzy is short for. ”I could pawn [the ring] and buy a few more rugs.” I fell out! Milton is funny. He and his roommate are adorable nerds, and their friendship is very sweet. Izzy and Stacy’s money conversation was interesting. 50/50 on a mortgage for a home he has no equity in (right, since it’s a premarital asset?) doesn’t seem like a good deal for him. Neither does Izzy footing the bill for all their entertainment.

She does look better without it though. So does Stacey. They both wear too much, and the wrong colors. Stacey looked much fresher and younger fresh out of bed. JP is boring as hell, and does everything he owns have a flag on it? Milt and Lydia are like a three-month casual non-exclusive thing. To Milton’s credit, while he does look young (he’s so gangly!) he’s got a sharp wit and can give it back to Lydia. I don’t see marriage for them though.

Kerok’s mother is going through chemo (she said in a previous episode that the chemo is causing discoloration in her skin, which is why she covers her face), so I cut her some slack. I really really REALLY hate Raneka’s wig though.

I’ve said this before but Louie’s mom really is an asshole. I was taught to respect my elders, but she would not speak to me the way she speaks to Melissa. Or parenting. I hate when these people drag their kids into their fuckery. Her son is adorable; her making some dude he’s never met his new dad is not. I was thinking “Mikey is really hard-looking,” and then they said he’d had two strokes and I felt bad. I do think it’s very sweet that he learned to sign. ”Well, that was awesome!” DEAD. That PI might be one of my favorite secondary characters.

Hi y’all - just popping in to say I’ll miss y’all tonight. I have a REALLY early day tomorrow and am going to bed early. Have fun!

Good for Chris, having some self-respect. He did the right thing. None whatsoever. They’re not a match at all. I was mad at Uche. Gave Aaliyah so much shit about her cheating and then waited all this time to tell her about Lydia. I was glad that Aaliyah had her own self-respect and bounced. Izzy and Stacy … I … guess? I don’t really like her so maybe that’s clouding things.

I found Johnie’s talk with Chris to be so cringe and if I were Chris I’d be insulted. “You’re the safe choice, you’re not exciting.” Ouch! She was like “I’m here because we had the most fun,” girl, stop. You’re there because you got dumped by the guy you really wanted. I commend Chris for saying that he didn’t want to be the safe choice, he wants to be the love of her life. I don’t think I’d have entertained the conversation. Stacy is really hard-looking and I think it’s partly because her makeup is … bad. Her foundation is a shade too light, her blush is too dark … she needs a makeunder. Everybody seems to go to Lydia for comfort. I wonder if that’s tiring for her? Neither JP nor Taylor is particularly attractive to me, and in the way you say. JP is, as you say, a regular-looking guy; Taylor is a bit too done, and could also use a makeunder. Lydia crying when Aaliyah was hugging her and saying how much she loves Uche takes on a whole new level when you learn that she dated Uche!

I like bald men! And it looks good on Izzy. I don’t know if he shaved it because he’s losing it, but it looks good. (I always think it looks better when men just let it go.)

I have a second date tomorrow night and I’m going to ask the fuck/marry/kill breakfast carbs question. As someone who loves breakfast food, I would be completely charmed by it. (A guy I dated a few months ago asked me to rank the days of the week and that was a fun question too.) Lydia’s accent isn’t that strong to me, but maybe that’s because I hear accents like hers and stronger every day. I felt bad for her when Izzy rejected her; rejection stings. Aaliyah’s conversation with Uche was intense, and I found him to be pretty condescending and judgmental. Like, of course she shouldn’t have cheated, but the way he went in on her was uncomfortable.

It’s like in Catfish when they just, like, look them up on Facebook.

Yeah, the drug use shows for sure. If he’d gone the other way - college, a trade - he’d good-looking. The fundamentals are there but his hard living shows.

Melissa is really cheering. My GOD.

Awwww, thank you! I try to use the brain God gave me, but I admit I’ve done some dumb shit for love. Not NEARLY as dumb as these women (no man has ever scammed me for money!) though.

I feel like I remember Louie being cuter

Take your kid some damn where!

Too soon! And I don’t know if he has the bandwidth for serious, but he seems nice so far. SUPER smart.

Yes. (And he paid so it wasn’t my forty dollars, but forty dollars for some coffee and sandwiches?!) I’m seeing him again, and we text.

Y’all: I went on a cafe date. Two iced coffees, two sandwiches (it was late morning). Forty dollars. That shit cray!

They dated when they were like 14.

Look: she looks trashy. I’m sorry. The breasts out, the Daisy dukes, the shoes … one of those is sexy, all three is trashy.