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…I'm okay with talking to her some more.

"Cool," she says and pauses for a moment, as if wanting to collect her thoughts and words. "You know, you never did tell me about yourself, well at least, not too much about yourself," she says. "Is it okay for you tell me a little bit about yourself so that we're on even footing?" You nod and give her a brief outline about yourself; your job, your likes and dislikes.

Samar listens to you quietly for a while and when you're done, she says, "Guess I really don't know much about you, huh?" You tell her that it's also true that you don't know much about her either, other than the fact that her troupe has successfully completed an audition and they'll be performing within a month or two. "Yeah…you're right. All right, your turn to ask me awkward questions then," she says, and you tell her to get ready.

"All right…ready for it. What's the first question?" she asks, and you pause for a moment before you…