It is for characters who supposedly lost their virginity to each other.

I was really struck by the fact that, two weeks in, she had been to his family’s house enough to learn their rules, and one month in, she was familiar and comfortable with them. That is...a lot of time spent with the family of a month-long foreign fling.

I don’t love this either, but there has been some heavy editing out of what Cara said. This is the whole section:

Oh man, I would totally have giggled about the teddy bear vagina. That shit is funny.

Not only did I love Bachelorette, I actually watched it thinking it was Bridesmaids (I realized about 2/3 of the way in that none of the jokes I had heard about were going to happen), and when I finally got around to watching Bridesmaids, I was disappointed.

I went to Vandy, and while downtown was never exactly chill, you could easily go out there without being overwhelmed. I went back last month, and even in the daytime, it was insane! I don’t remember ever having to wait in lines to get into the honky tonks, and those damned pedal bars or whatever they were were…

Uggghhh my school finally dealt with the sock battles by instituting a specific school uniform sock. The socks had little letters on the sides for the school’s name. Except that they only put the letters on the outside of the sock, which meant that there was a specific left sock and right sock. After a couple of…

I never noticed them until the time that a guy was hitting on me, gestured broadly with his hands, and I caught the glimmer of a wedding ring. I tried to rationalize that maybe I had misread his interest, and he was just being friendly...until he went to the bathroom to take it off and then came back to try again.

I mean, I will say that I have had a couple of weird moments since being engaged when a guy would talk to me (not even necessarily hitting on me), and I was suddenly very aware of my ring. You know how, when you meet a new person of whatever sex you are attracted to, there is a gut feeling that, after you’ve talked to…

Ugh, I am more likely to catch them undercharging me than overcharging, and every time, I fess up but with this brief, tantalizing hope that they will reward me for my honesty by not requiring me to pay the difference.

It has been raining in Newcastle for the past 5 days, and I am just so over it. It is June; I should not have to layer up to go outside.

Are you guys trying to stay in the UK? I think I (maybe creepily) remember that is where you are. My fiance and I are about to peace out of the UK for two years, but it looks like they just upped the requirements for applying for residency so that now you have to make £35000 a year...which, like, scoff, cackle, yeah,…

It’s really weird, too, because once you’re in York, Newcastle is pretty close, and I sort of thought that is where literally everybody in the northern half of England came for their stag/hen dos. It’s pretty horrifying to be in the city centre, but honestly, Newcastle does a pretty good job of both corralling them…

Yeah, I am now living with and going to marry my LDR. They definitely can work. Both of my sisters did LDRs with their husbands as well - one even international for a bit.

OH! YES! That is such a great idea!

I mean, you can think of it as “wanting to get laid, man,” but that is a pretty limited understanding of what sex and relationships are. There definitely are people who just want to get laid (which is fine), but sex is a significant part of a lot of adult relationships; it’s about more than just feeling good. You can…

I was in college when my friend casually said something about how there isn’t a God. I had this weird rapid-fire series of reactions, where first I was OUTRAGED that she would say such a damnable lie, then I was like, “Wait...oh my god, there isn’t!” I’ve since settled into comfortable agnosticism, but that has to be…

Ah, sorry, I feel like my comment sounded snarky now. I didn’t mean for it to! I assumed you were British and wanted to share in the celebration of a great film being newly available to us!

I mean...yes. That is what I am doing. I am suggesting that people are misdirecting their own annoyance (because again, I feel like “anger” and “hatred” are pretty strong words here).

Oh yeah, I totally agree. I was just responding to your question of “Why would anyone take cousins into consideration?” In retrospect, it was a little derailing on my part and kind of missed the point.