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Intimacy means different things to different people. Secrets can be downright sexy! Watch what happens in Episode 2 of "The Real Life Of A Rom-Com Protagonist," when Maisie and her lover find it impossible to resist one another after they get super vulnerable. Like, too vulnerable.

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Transcript
00:00She's so likable, relatable, clumsy and adorable, not looking for love, but she stumbles upon it.
00:05This is the real life of a rom-com protagonist.
00:10Then he said,
00:12Good night, Jeremy. I'll see you tomorrow.
00:16I never saw him tomorrow.
00:19Grandpa passed away in his sleep that very night.
00:22My God. I'm so sorry.
00:25I always carry around a piece of him, so I don't forget.
00:33Jeremy, I know we haven't known each other for very long, but I feel like I can just be really
00:38vulnerable with you.
00:40I feel exactly the same way.
00:42When I was little, my parents were always on the road, traveling as ballerinas, and I'd spend a lot of
00:49time alone at Mima's house.
00:51I mean, I didn't know it at the time, but I was a really lonely kid.
00:57That is so sad.
00:59Yeah, I mean, I did have one friend, though.
01:02This Ukrainian girl named Elena.
01:04I mean, she didn't speak any English, and we would just laugh and laugh.
01:10Until she died of Ukrainian measles, which is actually just an American cold.
01:18Thank you for sharing your story with me.
01:23Oh, thank you for sharing your story with me.
01:26It reminds me.
01:29No, I can't keep spilling my guts to you.
01:31Shh, no, I love it.
01:36That reminds me when my drunk of a father ran over our dog Snickers.
01:39That's terrible.
01:42I was punished for crying.
01:45I know exactly how you feel.
01:49I mean, when I thought my high school sweetheart died in the war, but really, my mother was just trying
01:54to keep us apart, but then he did come back and he died here.
01:57I wasn't allowed to cry in either of those situations.
02:01My twin brothers died in Iraq.
02:03Now when I go home to visit my mom, she takes me to a department store and makes me stand
02:06in front of a three-sided mirror so that she could pretend all of her boys are together again.
02:10Oh, that's so tragic.
02:11Yeah?
02:12Yeah.
02:12Tell me something tragic and vulnerable about you.
02:14I never knew my real mother.
02:15She caught on fire during childbirth.
02:17Oh, yeah.
02:19I was bullied so much in high school, I had to change my identity.
02:22Oh, I bet you were shamed.
02:23I bet you were publicly shamed.
02:26Okay, get ready, baby, because I went to the Oscars with Bradley Cooper.
02:29How's that, vulnerable or tragic?
02:31I Indian food shit myself on the red carpet.
02:35Yeah, I was the first person in New York to get bed bugs.
02:37It was me, baby.
02:38I started it.
02:40I post ingrown hair videos on YouTube.
02:43Give it to me, baby.
02:44I was in creed.
02:49I wrote all the songs.
02:54Get the fuck out of my apartment.
02:57That's fair.
02:59I'll just add this to my list of shame.

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