How sad that one person's jealous nature caused such a rift in your relationship with your boyfriend at the time. Trust is a difficult thing to earn back. That must have been heartbreaking to know that your boyfriend felt that way and wasn't able to get past it. On the other hand, if he knew you at all, he would have trusted you when you told him that the family friend was just a jealous man suffering from the effects of unrequited love. Perhaps a lesson in there for all three of you... and we live and learn and grow from our experiences. Be careful with your punctuation, especially as regards dialogue. You should use double inverted commas like this " to open and close all speech, regardless of who is speaking. Any periods or commas at the end of speech should sit inside the closing inverted comma, like this: "Hello, my name is Ay," he announced, closing the space between them, with an outstretched hand. Try writing your draft in Google docs or using Grammarly or Zohowriter to pick out areas where you could improve readability of your text.

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