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“One evening, we were sitting in his apartment, and he says, ‘Little friend, by now you know what I’m like. I am basically not a very convenient person.â€� And then he went on to describe himself: not a talker, can be pretty harsh, can hurt your feelings, and so on. Not a good person to spend your life with. And he goes on. ‘Over the course of three and a half years you’ve probably made up your mind.â€� I realized we were probably breaking up. So I said, ‘Well, yes, I’ve made up my mind.â€� And he said, with doubt in his voice, ‘Really?â€� That’s when I knew we were definitely breaking up. ‘In that case,â€� he said, “I love you and I propose we get married on such and such a day.â€� And that was completely unexpected.”
― Masha Gessen, The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin