“But have you tried just telling any of your romantic partners the truth?” Jaq asked.
“Not as such,” he said. “But that doesn’t mean it would work. It’s Christmas. Even if they pretended to understand, they’d be disappointed that I couldn’t pick them out a decent present.”
“Well then, can’t you just get them something…simple?” she asked.
“But what’s simple? I tried giving a boyfriend a Canadian province once. State? Are they called states?” He took another sip from his drink, feeling the battling cold of the ice and the heat of the alcohol course through him. “Anyway, I thought that was pretty straightforward, but he got really weird about it.”
“Yeah, maybe think smaller than…land you stole from a foreign government,” she said.
“See? I suck at this,” he said, deflating.
“No, no, you
