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I met this gorgeous guy on a dating app hot, charming, sent exactly the right amount of emojis. We agreed to meet at his apartment. Sketchy? Yet, simple. So… I thought.
I show up. Knock on Unit 6D. A gorgeous man opens it in just a towel. I say, “Hey, I’m here for Graham.”
He smirks and says, “Well… I’m Graham.”
We start flirting. I believe it was flirting? I think, “Damn, the pictures didn’t do him justice.”
Five minutes later, another guy walks in and yells: “Graham! Who’s this?!”
Turns out I knocked on the wrong apartment. Wrong Graham. The best part?
Turns out Graham isn’t even his name. It was JOSH! We all had drinks. Nobody was mad due to the photos not doing him justice.
And let’s just say… I wanted a Graham cracker real bad.
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