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I have a friend who confessed his feelings... I admire him from afar cus he's a genuinely an admirable guy who's 100% my type. After years of friendship I've always thought to myself "oh he's just sweet" or "he's like this with everyone" I was deflecting. When he confessed...I didn't really know why and understand...it happened over chat and I couldn't really tell if he was joking around with me. He said he was shooting his shot.. (I ended up rejecting him due to personal reasons) A week has passed, it still in my mind even though we're talking how we usually talk to one another.... There's questions and more to things I didn't get to say to him actually...but I don't know if I should bring it up or how to bring it up with out making it more awkward than it already is.