But when they did some 12 years on, she exacted the most incredible revenge – by standing him up with a note, pinned to a picture of her as a teenager.
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It said: “Hey [name obscured], so sorry I can’t join you tonight.
“Remember year 8, when I was fat and you made fun of my weight? No? I do – I spent the following three years eating less than an apple a day. So I’ve decided to skip dinner.
“Remember the monobrow you mocked? The hairy legs you were disgusted by? Remember how every day for three years, you and your friends called me Manbeast? No perhaps you don’t – or you wouldn’t have seen how I look eight years later and deemed me f*ckable enough to treat me like a human being.
“I thought I’d send you this as a reminder. Next time you think of me, picture that girl in this photo, because she’s the one who just stood you up…Louisa.”
Speaking to BuzzFeed, the student revealed after her date received her note he actually contacted her to apologise – something which left her with mixed feelings.
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“I’m so shocked, I actually got an apology,” she said.
“It’s 10 years too late and really if he’d intended to apologise he should have done so when I bumped into him last weekend rather than asking me out for dinner first, but it’s still an apology and it’s still amazing I got one.”
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