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[Sentimental Gentleman]

It's interesting how Sentimental Gentleman's heart belong to Applejack, and from the way he carries himself here, I would thought it would be Rarity. Tongue

I was actually just talking about that with Lurker recently. It's rather funny, but while she is certainly one of my friends, Rarity is probably the pony I feel the most distant from. She's like the inverse of how I feel Applejack and I are. A.J. and I are superficially very different, but we share the same core values and feelings; I feel like we're the complementary versions of the same core idea. The opposite parts of ourselves serve to attract, as per the old saw, while the similarities in soul sustain our relationship. Whereas with Rarity, I share a lot of superficial similarities, but it always seems like the two of us do the things we do for entirely different reasons. I hope this won't be taken as a condemnation of a mare whose friendship I cherish...but I think, for instance, one of the key differences between us is that she's a mare of fashion. She always seems to be reinventing herself for the sake of some social goal rather than through inner necessity. That's certainly one way to approach life, but it's not one I really connect to. Where she's outward-oriented, I've often found myself to be far more inward-oriented...and Applejack is the same way, though it doesn't come out for her precisely like it does for me. It's caused us some difficulty in the past, in fact, even though we've always weathered it and reconciled.

I saw what my sugarcube was writing and I wanted to throw in my two bits. I always did think he was a bit like Rarity, only he wasn't nearly as prissy as she can get sometimes. Just see him working at the Acres sometime! He's like if Rarity knew how to really let loose, you know? And that's the kind of a sweetheart I always wanted. Makes me feel like a princess without all that fussing I can't stand.

Wow...between the two of us we really turned this into an essay, didn't we? My apologies, but I felt it needed to be said.