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Hello, Sandro. I read your work and I have enjoyed it so far. You have talent in writing and it's fairly well-written, but I have some nitpicks to point out and give you some suggestions to improve your writing.

First, it's the dialogue. You cannot write and merge the conversation between characters into a single paragraph. You're mixing and potentially confusing the readers in who-is-who is talking. You have to separate them individually. Like this:

"Hey, dude, you must be my new roommate!" he said with a warm voice. "I'm Jack, by the way." He held out his for me to shake.

I smiled and shook his hand. "Nice to meet you, Jack. I'm Sandro," I said, trying not to look too nervous.

Second, you are overusing the "I couldn't help but" a lot. In my opinion, it's getting pretty annoying.

Instead of: "It was a backhanded compliment, I knew, but I couldn't help but smile anyway."

Write this: "It was a backhanded compliment, I knew, but I smiled anyway."

Please, use less the "I couldn't help but" or drop it all together. I hope you will do better in the future.

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Hey. I'm aware of those repetitions, and if I ever feel like correcting them, I will do so, but proofreading isn't my favorite task to do, so it really depends on me thinking about it while writing. Don't worry further, I'm already working on that one.  :)