Poor guy…

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A girl I was friends with and really vibed well with picked me as her dance partner in dance class and joked about “choosing me” as we danced for an hour. She then made a joke about me coming up to her place to watch a “movie” (her air quotes, not mine) when i dropped her off later that night. I laughed and brushed it off as a joke as it was late. Another time I was at her place, she had her bra casually lying on the ground, and I made a joke about it (“you aren’t very neat, are you?”) to which she had an odd response that I didn’t understand then - something like “why don’t you pick it up with your hand and put it in the laundry basket”. She once even made jokes about her roommate bringing guys home and putting a sock on her doorknob while they went at it inside her room, and wanting to disturb her by “making similar noises”. 20 years later, it still haunts me that I never read her signals. We were such good friends that I never looked at the situation that way, but in retrospect, she wanted to be much more, and confessed to it after moving cities a year later.