Nah, it's better like that. Didn't make any friends I'd want anyone to meet.

[Sweeping generalizations like that are easier. Easier than thinking about Jay and who he might've been prior to everything, easier than thinking about how his life had been so unremarkable and shitty and forgettable that he'd had no hesitations in hurling himself headfirst at the thing that would kill him.]

She seemed all right. "Corny" isn't so bad.

[Better than "pretentious".]