Egoboost

He showered and had a brief rub down in Physiotherapy, drank a cup of hot coffee gratefully that a student nurse had waiting for him, conscious of her worshipful eyes on him, knowing the cause of that worship, knowing that he was worthy of it. Egoboost, but well earned.

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“Tuckerizing” is a private, ‘inside’ thing, a way of expressing friendship and giving an egoboost to admired and respected people.

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Raju gets a niche in her heart precisely because of his appreciation of her art, an appreciation that she sorely needs as an egoboost.

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In an ideal world you would ask your girlfriend and your girlfriend would say no. What’s more, she would then go on to assure you that all other men are mere slugs compared to you, that you’re the best she’s ever had, that you’re hung like an Irish wolfhound blah blah egoboost blah. In real life, however, your stridently intelligent girlfriend will realise that suspicious minds stem from suspicious deeds and that it is actually you who is either having, or thinking about having, an affair.

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