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What does your fake boyfriend do for a living? (piefed.cdn.blahaj.zone)
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[–] ValiantDust@feddit.org 19 points 3 weeks ago

Guys refusing to take a simple No for an answer always makes me think of Elizabeth's refusal of Mr Collins in Pride & Prejudice and how little some things have changed in the last 200 years.

Do not consider me now as an elegant female, intending to plague you, but as a rational creature, speaking the truth from her heart.

Including having to bring a man in (albeit the father, not a boyfriend):

[...] determined, if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behaviour at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female.