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The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining.__hy are you crying?!___ecause Fufi loves another boy.___o? Why would that hurt you? It didn__ cost you anything. Fufi__ here. She still loves you. She__ still your dog. So get over it.__ufi was my first heartbreak. No one has ever betrayed me more than Fufi. It was a valuable lesson to me. The hard thing was understanding that Fufi wasn__ cheating on me with another boy. She was merely living her life to the fullest. Until I knew that she was going out on her own during the day, her other relationship hadn__ affected me at all. Fufi had no malicious intent.I believed that Fufi was my dog, but of course that wasn__ true. Fufi was a dog. I was a boy. We got along well. She happened to live in my house. That experience shaped what I__e felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. They__l come to me angry and crying and talking about how they__e been cheated on and lied to, and I feel for them. I understand what they__e going through. I sit with them and buy them a drink and I say, __riend, let me tell you the story of Fufi.
Trevor Noah Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
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The dogs left with us and we walked. I sobbed the whole way home, still heartbroken. My mom had no time for my whining.__hy are you crying?!___ecause Fufi loves another boy.___o? Why would that hurt you? It didn__ cost you anything. Fufi__ here. She still loves you. She__ still your dog. So get over it.__ufi was my first heartbreak. No one has ever betrayed me more than Fufi. It was a valuable lesson to me. The hard thing was understanding that Fufi wasn__ cheating on me with another boy. She was merely living her life to the fullest. Until I knew that she was going out on her own during the day, her other relationship hadn__ affected me at all. Fufi had no malicious intent.I believed that Fufi was my dog, but of course that wasn__ true. Fufi was a dog. I was a boy. We got along well. She happened to live in my house. That experience shaped what I__e felt about relationships for the rest of my life: You do not own the thing that you love. I was lucky to learn that lesson at such a young age. I have so many friends who still, as adults, wrestle with feelings of betrayal. They__l come to me angry and crying and talking about how they__e been cheated on and lied to, and I feel for them. I understand what they__e going through. I sit with them and buy them a drink and I say, __riend, let me tell you the story of Fufi.
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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

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