a martini

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He and I were like sugar on a martini glass.

Maybe we'd work, perhaps it wouldn't appear all that strange.

I'd appear exactly like what he'd need.

Except, I wouldn't.

I wouldn't be able to balance his taste or improve his experience.

Yet, God, I tried.

But I was the sugar to his martini and the orange to his vodka.

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