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64. Terry - Alffmix (Stranded: Aruba)

Terry and I had an interesting relationship, because we were clearly enemies and clearly our agendas in the game could not contradict each other more. As one of the leaders of the Caquetios tribe and a solid member of the Caquetios 5, Terry (along with Cirie) took the role of leading me to the gallows to be hung after I was thrown into the minority in the swap. And on the surface, he was a pretty big douchebag about it. In fact, the first post-swap Immunity Challenge almost made me the angriest I've ever been in an ORG (well, I don't really get angry over these things, but it was still somewhat frustrating). Terry tried his best to outright deny Gary and I the opportunity to compete in the challenge to save ourselves. Poody's challenge sit-out rules denied him the ability (and Melinda was reasonable enough to give one of us her spot anyway), so I was able to compete and lose fair and square. But yeah, his actions that night really irritated me, and I thought they were particularly classless.

SIDENOTE: Yes, this is exactly what the Favorites did in Micronesia. No, I can't really comment on that game because it's still on-going. But I can say I felt like absolute shit doing that, and while it did help me empathize a bit more with Terry, it didn't make me respect the game move much more than I did before.

Anyway, after that night, Terry and I talked some more and we began to realize that we were far more similar than we previously realized. In different circumstances, we 100% would have worked together, and we knew that. Unlike with Cirie or Melinda, I felt a mutual respect from Terry and saw that we were enemies purely due to the way the game had gone, and not due to any particular aspects of our personalities. Of course, the power flip on the tribe threw Terry into the new minority, but he handled the betrayal well and our respect for each other continued. IIRC, he was rooting for me, and that's always nice. And yes, in retrospect, we totally should have booted Melinda over Terry. I won't say it was a mistake because we could not have predicted an early merge and an IC that Melinda would be able to singlehandedly win for herself, but with that knowledge, Terry should have actually made the merge, and if he had, we probably would have had an entirely different game.

So yeah, I wish Terry had stuck around, and yeah, for being a pretty bitter game enemy, he was a really respectable guy that I appreciated and wish I had been able to work together with. Had we ended up on the same tribe from the beginning, I can assure you we would have become a pretty unstoppable duo. And that's enough to push him this high in my ranking.