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"Mia? What are you doing here?"
"I was just visiting a friend," she replied, hugging me. "I'm honestly surprised to see you in Brooklyn."
"Yeah, I just... well it's complicated," I said, hugging her back. "But it's really nice to see you again."
"Yeah, you too," she replied, pulling back to look at me. She was grinning from ear to ear, as if she'd seen an old friend who hadn't been around for a long time. She was wearing a bright yellow sundress, with a brown leather jacket thrown over it to shield her from the rain. She looked like she'd just stepped out of the pages of a Barbie comic, and it was a sharp contrast to the dreary experience I was having today.
"I'd actually been meaning to call you," she said. "I was thinking that maybe you'd want to hang out with my friends and I.
