Shay: I'm new at this, okay? But I'm really really trying. Jude: Yeah, so am I, Shay. I'm not asking you to marry me, I'm just asking for a normal boyfriend. Shay: Well maybe that's the problem. Hate to tell you but you left normal a long time ago. You're a star now, girl. Besides I'd (could?)be normal and we can be exceptional together.He'll make an effort to be like normal people so they can be together? P.S. Shay is a rap star.
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would is the contracted word, even though it doesn't make as much sense as 'could'. Your interpretation is correct.
— Philip
would is the contracted word, even though it doesn't make as much sense as 'could'.
Your interpretation is correct.
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Maybe I'm being slow but I can't make any sense of this. If the suggested interpretation is correct then he seems to be first saying that it's unreasonable/unworkable for her to have a "normal" boyfriend because she's a star now, and then immediately contradicting himself by saying he would/could be normal and then everything would work out fine for them. I also don't understand the function of t