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And so I was like doing a bunch of paintings of Elliot Smith and I posted it online and my ex found me through that.
He messaged me and was like, oh my gosh, this is so cool.
He found my MySpace, basically.
He was like, I've never met a girl who has all the same music and movie taste and you love Elliott Smith and you're an incredible artist.
And so we started talking and we talked forever.
At this point, I was living in Somerville, South Carolina, and he was living in Columbia.
And he knew some people that I knew.
And I didn't actually meet him in person until I think I was 19.
We were just really young, and we were both going in very different directions.
I had also just broken up with somebody.
And so we started dating like a year later.
You know, there were signs that things were not going to work out well.
It's easy to see now in hindsight.
But at the time, like, I was justβI was a young girl.
I was in love with somebody.
And, I mean, to be perfectly honest, I just didn't really have a good handle on what a healthy relationship looked like.