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'Why Is He Being So Weird?'

It's time to leave this ghost behind and focus on what's real instead.

Heather Havrilesky
May 13, 2022
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Ends of Barns (1922) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Hi Polly.

Around three and a half years ago, I met a guy through a close friend. They made out a few times at clubs but she always insisted she never liked him. Meanwhile, he and I became very close friends. Around six months after we met, I went on a summer exchange to London and found myself talking to him on the…

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