Board Thread:Survivor 39: Poveglia/@comment-36035721-20190604010319/@comment-31200621-20190604044214

Okay, I’m going to actually answer your question in a bit when all the speeches are posted but I need to apologize because I majorly fucked up the wording of my opening speech and that has led to an assumption that cannot be further from the truth and I want to explain what I wanted to express with my remarks towards you in my opening speech.

Hoping to go more detail into our relationship with the actual answers to questions, I wanted to just bring up gently in my speech why I decided to reach out to you early on and then just say you were my strategic partner and dynamic duo as a brief statement, while elaborating more in jury answer. I realize reading it back it makes it seem that I severely downplayed the relationship we had and what you did, and I want to set the record straight on what I truly believe and what i articulated so so poorly:

You were the best relationship I ever had, you were such a smart gameplayer and we could work so in tune with each other bouncing ideas off to figure out next steps. You were the person I could come to with a crazy idea and help tone it down if it was good or bad. I’ll go into this more in Natalia’s answer but for strategy what I loved so much about our relationship was at least in my eyes, neither one of us directly controlled votes separately, but we took turns sort of taking the lead or in the aiding role as rounds went on. I took more of an active stance in Alex going, and you more so when Natalia went but that doesnt mean each of us weren’t crucial to the moves being made. You were the person I felt I could be the most sincere with and the most open with about how I felt, whether I was annoyed or happy. And while I will go into more detail in again other answers about aspects where I believe I might of been playing you, those aspects are so small towards what we did accomplish together. And despite how big a threat to win you were, I still was still having trouble talking myself out of sitting at the end with you cause that’s the final tribal I wanted from the moment we made our final 2 deal.

I hope this explains how I truly feel and why I hope the poor word choice in my opening speech doesn’t ruin everything we built together this game. I swear on everything I can this isn’t jury pandering or sucking up, you have to know it’s true, and the thought that I made you think for a moment your relationship didn’t mean everything to me in this game, and you weren’t the goddamn best player this season in my eyes would truly haunt. I love you so fucking much bb, and while I hope my opening speech didn’t lose me your jury vote, I sure hope to hell a lot more it didn’t lose me your friendship.