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==Explanation==
 
==Explanation==
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[[Megan]] tells her boyfriend ([[Hairy]]) her reservations about their relationship: she's happy with him, she thinks he doesn't compare to anyone else, and they have a strong connection built up over the course of years, but she's worried that all this is just because they've been dating so long that she hasn't had the opportunity to experience potentially better relationships. However, she recognizes that what she has should be enough, and resolves to stop worrying. Hairy responds to this by saying that he doesn't even like her, recognizing that it's relatively poor timing to say so after her expression of love (albeit a rather ambivalent one).
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''xkcd'' has had a couple of awkward-romance strips throughout its history. Other examples of things not to say in romantic moments are given in [[770: All the Girls]] and [[44: Love]]. Playing on stereotypes, the girl has analyzed every aspect of the relationship, and the guy hasn't analyzed anything at all.
  
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The title text is a sad-face emoticon, representing either Megan's sadness about his dislike of her, his (possibly disingenuous) sympathy for her, or the narrator's recognition that he's depicted a sad situation.
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The title text references the feeling of sadness. :)
  
 
==Transcript==
 
==Transcript==
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:[Hairy and Megan are talking]
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:[Cueball and Megan are talking]
 
:Megan: I worry that I'm just with you because it's familiar. Of course no one else compares. I've known you for so long that I'd have to spend years with someone to build up this kind of connection and I daren't let you go of you long enough to let that happen.
 
:Megan: I worry that I'm just with you because it's familiar. Of course no one else compares. I've known you for so long that I'd have to spend years with someone to build up this kind of connection and I daren't let you go of you long enough to let that happen.
 
:Megan: But I guess this is really all I can ask for. I'm happy with you; I should stop worrying.
 
:Megan: But I guess this is really all I can ask for. I'm happy with you; I should stop worrying.
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:[Megan takes Hairy's hand.]
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:[Megan takes Cueball's hand]
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:Hairy: This is probably a bad time to bring this up, but I don't actually like you.
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:Cueball: This is probably a bad time to bring this up, but I don't actually like you.
  
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
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{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
 
[[Category:Romance]]
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[[Category:Comics with lowercase text]]
 

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