alpha.

“Hey, you’re that - guy/woman/person, right?”

“Can I ask you a question? About what happened.”

“Were you scared?”

“I looked you up.”

“I didn’t know what to think about you. I thought I’d better meet you in person.”

“You’re good at what you do. I’ve seen it.”

“You’re a [job position], right?”

“I looked you up. I’m sorry.”

“I didn’t realize you were, like … a real person.”

“An ‘invasion of privacy’? How?”

“Wow, you were different on TV.”

“Well, you did it in public, though. It’s legal to film people in public.”

“Is the media still following you?”

“What did you do after they stopped reporting about it?”

“Someone said you were on the news?”

“Did you do it on purpose?”

“So your life story’s just… published everywhere.”

“That must be lonely.”

“I didn’t watch it.”

“You were/weren’t overreacting.”

“Would you like my opinion?”

“Your life story isn’t news.”

“I don’t want to pretend I didn’t see it, because I did.”

“How do you like to deal with it? Should I pretend I don’t know?”

“So I found this footage…”

“It just popped up in my feed. I didn’t realise what it was until it was too late.”

“It looked like you really hated the attention.”

“I needed to know what happened so I could feel safe.”

“Did you realize it would be that big when you did it?”