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'I'm Haunted by My Successful Ex!'

It's normal to want more.

Heather Havrilesky
Jun 19, 2025
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Kenningar (1961), Dorothea Tanning

This is a letter I replied to a month ago. On Tuesday, I found it on my desktop, wrote a new reply, and republished it. When I discovered my error, I felt terrible and deleted the repeat column. The next day I wrote about my mistake. Some readers have said that they wish they hadn’t missed the repeat column, so I’m repu…

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