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Pass by…

Dear Dyet,
I would like you to take a look at this picture:

This is you standing in a street.

I can safely say to you that if I, Patrick Taylor, was walking down this same street I would neither “pass by” nor “pass you by”.

What I would do is “pass by you”.

But I wouldn’t get very far.

I would crash into and fall over the plant stand behind you.

And once I squared up with the shopkeeper and paid for the plants that I broke, I would find you and talk to you.

That’s the effect you have on me.