When you first start spending time with someone it's a lot like getting interrogated. It's a whole lot of asking questions and revealing information a bit at a time. You have to be careful not to dump your whole life story on someone all at once. Also you have your own questions. Each carefully chosen answer leads to a whole series of other questions. Answers like, "That reminds me of that night in Cabo" make the mind wander.
You find yourself wondering about Cabo. Who was there. What the hell happened in Cabo. In the span of a minute you create this entire fiction about the new POI* and their time in some Mexican prison. The reality is much more banal but what if it isn't? What if it is worse than you could have ever imagined?
This is the thing that dating in this day and age is all about. Everyone has a past. Everyone has done some fairly awful things. You just hope that the their awful things are not worse than your awful things.
*Person of interest
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