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How My Girlfriend Broke Up With Me In My Dream by Belinda Roddie I told her that, without a doctor, she would swell up like a balloon.

The message that Arthur derived from the tone of his mother's voice was completely off, but he held steadfast to his belief of what she meant and refused to speak to her for two days. It wasn't until his aunt told him he was being ridiculous that he offered to take his mother out to coffee to apologize, only to become flippant when she sounded "slightly stern" about his driving.