It is common to use ‘like’ in this way to report speech in a more casual, informal way. This does not require us to change tenses, pronouns etc – we report the original, direct speech.
e.g. I told him I wasn’t coming to his party and he was like, “well, I don’t remember inviting you anyway”.
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