Once upon a time, I had a boyfriend who had an ex-girlfriend who had a facebook account. I knew they were in contact, but the way he described their relationship was the way we are always told is indicative of their being truly over it: brief and amicable. Nonetheless, when he accidentally left his account…
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I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk…and then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one. -Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five My name is Dunja and I am a drunk dialer. I have long…
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My recent trip to Europe marked two milestones in my life: 1) My first visit to Germany. 2) My first purchase of artwork. Whilst strolling around the streets of Berlin with a friend, we came across an op shop owned by a rather disagreeable woman, a fact that could be forgiven when we realised the…
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The philosophy underlying the He’s Just Not That Into You book/film/whatever is not without merit. I’ve wasted time with men who clearly weren’t interested in me on more occasions than I’d care to mention, where I found myself unable to move on because of sporadic reciprocation or the vague promise of ‘one day’. However true…
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Typically, telling your girlfriend that you accidentally went on a date with someone who wasn’t her can only be a funny story if the news is quickly followed by ‘and then I told her I had a girlfriend.’ So I was surprised when Bon Jovi instead rattled off the reasons why he’d spent several hours…
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‘Long distance love is the answer to lasting happiness,’ sad a Spanish teacher I once had. In a speech entirely unrelated to the acquisition of a language, she told us that it’s the eternal honeymoon: no housework, no shared financial dramas, no need for ‘space’. And when you do see each other, she slyly said,…
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