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Instead, she took a deep breath and said, “I fell in love with a vampire. I let her turn me because I bought into?? that whole eternal love spiel. Then The Eye staked her, and I . . . I killed someone because I was starving. Eventually the Council took me in and sent me to Hecate.”
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Instead, she took a deep breath and said, “I fell in love with a vampire. I let her turn me because I bought into?? that whole eternal love spiel. Then The Eye staked her, and I . . . I killed someone because I was starving. Eventually the Council took me in and sent me to Hecate.”
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"To buy into" means to believe that something is true, sometimes without requiring any proof or evidence.

I totally bought into that "Macs are better than ordinary PCs" idea, but now I realise it was just hype!

My cousin totally bought into Scientology - we had to rescue him from the cult after a couple of years and now he's in therapy.
 
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