This's when I got why the 'feminism' label was here. Just thinking, from a behaviourist perspective, affection's likely to be merely a positive stimulus-response neural reflex, and just like a bad habit, it's possible to shake it off in 30 days. If only life could be that simple.
I had a choice. I could leave the runway and let my inner model die of shame, or I could pick myself up, flaws and all, and finish. And that's just what I did. When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep on walking.