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MONDAY, 15 DECEMBER 1997
Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been quiet".
You weren't. You were just talking to nobody.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Sleep when the baby sleeps. Also pay the mortgage when the baby pays the…
- You quit your job to "find yourself". Found you. You're on your parents' sofa,…
- Parenting is ten percent love and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is.…
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- Not all who wander are lost. You are. The map gave up.
- You left them on read "to be mysterious". They didn't notice. They were also…
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