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Persaud says many of his students hope to rent a car overseas, where automatics are sometimes harder to come by, or have significant others who own stick shifts but lack “the patience to teach them.”

"For people that are family, or a significant other, I didn't want to have to take my contacts out and then look different."

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But as the streaming wars took off, password sharing between significant others and parents and their adult children became rampant.

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Today, each one can legally marry their significant others.

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They also discussed it being “freeing” when they finally rid themselves of their cheating significant others.

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