It took me awhile to work out the cooking. We had a lot of burnt shit for awhile. Ate a lot of garbage, too. [ He's.... being literal here, but he's not going to specify. He'll be glad if she doesn't take the phrase at face value, he's already regretting saying it. Shitty memories of digging food out of back alleys of restaurants are bubbling up and he's got much less good humour on his face than he did before. ]
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