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“The obvious solution is to not pretend to be someone you're not…Most of us know this. Some of us still avoid it. Because being yourself in a relationship is a risk. It means showing someone the real bits of who you are - the spots beneath the make-up; the self-doubt beneath the cynicism - and finding the courage to say, This is me. Take it or leave it, and to really mean it.”