Her girlfriend ask why she broke up with him.

Smiling, she said ‘Because I realized being with him was like eating crab: It takes a lot of effort to get to the meat. After a while you start asking yourself do I really like crab enough to want to work this hard just to get little bites? Maybe if he had been one of those giant Alaskan king crabs it would have been different. He wasn’t.’

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