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I don’t remember much, but this was a book about a young woman who had gone to debutante classes early on. Then she boards a ship to (I believe) America. I think she was Irish.

On the boat, she gets sea sick. I feel like I remember them mentioning that she had a bunch of fancy dresses. At one point they find a washed up dead whale and they take the blubber from it. I don’t remember anything else and I cannot find anything like this when googling!

So basically, my group of friends has always frequented a certain street in our town. It has a good string of bars, we’ve been going basically only to these bars for probably nearly a year.

About two months ago, I was looking for a place to live and found a condo right next door to our favorite bar, which means it’s also on the same street as the rest. I can now walk to the bars instead of ubering. Keep in mind, everyone else is still ubering as planned.

A few weeks back, a girl named C started asking us to go to other bars. Everyone’s already ubering anyways, and I don’t mind so we did. But we’re creatures of habit so we slowly reverted back to our classic bars. C stopped coming. C was my friend who I brought into the group and she blended in pretty well and made friends with a few of the other girls independent of me. So one of the girls shows me texts from C where she’s saying she thinks it’s unfair that I don’t have to uber but she does and that we’re prioritizing me over her.

To be clear, we have ALWAYS gone to these bars and up until recently, I have also ubered. I just happened to move to the location of the bars. Anyways, I felt bad and called her and ordered her an uber. She came out, we had fun, I also paid for her uber home. Then, she asked me when her uber was picking her up last weekend. I felt awkward so I ordered it anyways. That night was pretty tense, but I’m not one for drama so whatever. I wound up leaving early and she had to order her own uber home, and apparently was talking crap about me the whole night.

Basically, she feels that I should be paying for her Ubers to this bar since it’s a bar near me and I save money by not having to uber. I kind of understand her, but also I chose this condo because it’s so close. It’s not a cheap condo. With this weekend coming up, I don’t want to pay for her uber back and forth but I also don’t want to cause drama in our group.

AIO, or is she right? I really can’t tell. She does live near some bars, but it’s just not the vibe and there’s like 15 of us who regularly meet at our current bars. It seems like a pretty big deal to try to convince all of them to switch from our local bar. I’ve been going for at least a year, and some people have been going for 5+ years.

I didn’t screenshot it but the other day she posted a pic of herself from January and one from now and she looks so much healthier and just better overall! My jaw dropped honestly at the comparison because she was so malnourished in January. Anyone happen to have the screenshot?