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     21 Questions: the basic get to know each other game. While it can be entertaining, it can also be stress-inducing: what's the other person going to ask? Are you going to be able to answer it honestly without making a bad impression? Will you be comfortable answering it? Will they know too much? Will they use it against you?

      It always starts off easy. "What was the best/worst thing to happen to you?" and basic questions like that. After a while, however, you get into the deep questions that you don't want to answer. 

     For those of you that are unaware of this cliche game, it goes something like this: You ask a question, they answer. Then, they ask you a question, and you answer.

     So, following the rules, she asked a question, and he answered it. After that, it was his turn. he asked his question, and she paused. It's not that she didn't have an answer--she had many answers--she just didn't want to say any of those answers out loud. 

    So, when she changed the subject with a different, easy question for him, he went with it because he knew that she was broken. And he didn't want to make her break more.

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