Her: I haven’t seen you in so long, Ali, how are you?
Me: I’m wonderful. How are you? You look great!
Her, waving her hands: PSHAW. Eh…I don’t really. I’m a mess, and I’m tired. But I wear really good concealer.
Me: Okay, let’s try this again. I’m going to tell you that you look great, and you’re going to just smile and say thank you.
Her: You’re so right. Ugh. Why do we always shrug off compliments?
Me: We always do. Hey, {name of lovely person} you look great.
Her: Thank you!
Me: We really need to try to do that more.
Her: We really do.
So let’s do that.

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