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Thank you We sneak in achievement and excellence in becoming

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social allah shmoop petunia here petunias in love all day

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every day no matter where she goes or what she

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does There's Just one person on her mind herself Yeah

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it's getting pretty serious So yeah petunias A little self

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obsessed but it's Not like she spends hours in front

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of the mirror every morning or goes on shopping sprees

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buying herself fancy clothes that's all stuff people do when

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they're trying to impress other people Petunia is perfectly happy

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to put zero effort in her personal appearance nor into

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fostering any kind of friendship or relationship nor even into

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keeping the peace with her own family because the only

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person she needs and you know needs to make happy

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is number one Everyone else can take a long walk

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off a short pier Actually they can take a long

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run off a short pier it's more time efficient so

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opportunities classmates are going to the movies or having a

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party or just hanging out in somebody's room Dishing out

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the latest gossip petunia is spending time with her favorite

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person in the world writing in her diary about herself

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Of course or watching old home videos featuring herself anything

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so long as it doesn't involve others want a winner

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She is Unfortunately it finally occurred to petunia that she

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may be robbing herself of some valuable life experiences by

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cutting herself off from the rest of the non petunia

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world for example she'd love it if there were a

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little petunia junior running around one day Wonder how that's

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gonna happen if she never opens up enough to start

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dating And she's noticed that friends tend to give each

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other emotional support and exchanged compliments Well heck petunia would

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like someone to give her emotional support and compliment her

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She recognizes it's sort of a two way street but

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maybe it would be worth it Well plus all that

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stuff her peers we're doing and going away for weekend

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ski trips filling hilarious sketches they've written in what not

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well actually seem pretty fun a lot of laughter involved

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anyway okay so yeah people couldn't get on petunias nerves

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but it's not like she has to suddenly be best

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friends with everybody It turns out being social and having

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a network of people who will have your back and

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help you out in a pinch is a valuable thing

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thing to have So petunia sucks it up and make

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some friends while she tries to anyway at first he's

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not that good at it Like anything else you're not

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gonna be a pro right out of the gate especially

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when you've spent your entire existence well disliking people Friendship

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is a skill and petunia resolves and works hard to

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hone it The more she tries to be personable and

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to make jokes in the laugh it's jokes of others

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to be an ear for someone who needs a listener

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and not just be yapping about herself all day long

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Well the more rewarding she finds the trade off and

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the better she gets it we'll simply being a social

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animal by the time she gets college well who knows

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Petunia might be the hit of every party although gona

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parties might be a little awkward after all her first 00:02:36.33 --> [endTime] love is always gonna be there

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