"Look, when you grow up being stalked, manipulated, and almost eaten alive, you develop a healthy level of paranoia. I trust no one. I make no exceptions. I sit facing the exit. Always. And if I have to explain that again, you're buying my coffee. Some people call it ‘hypervigilance.’ I call it ‘staying alive.’ I'm told ‘carrying a knife at all times and assuming the worst about people’ is a barrier to meaningful relationships. Whatever."