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I was told I am a cold person for cutting people out so “easily.” [It’s not easy, but I prefer it over the back and forth of someone not worthwhile] Do you think it’s uncommon?

i don’t know what’s common or uncommon.
or that it matters.
you make decisions based on good intentions.
sometimes it works and sometimes you’re wrong.
this is the world.
i’ve been told that i’m too easily influenced by disappointment. or possibly too easily disappointed.
wait, i can’t remember which of those analyses was hers and which was mine.
i don’t know.
is this a terrible answer?

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Is Arizona really as backwards as it seems?

parts of arizona are forward.
this room, for example
is very progressive
with its ikea lighting and tastefully crowded bulletin board
and paper birds.
there’s a japanese friendship garden
with so many koi
you can feed them
they pile up on top of each other.
there are trees and a path.
you would love it.
also the grand canyon does not discriminate.
but i’ll be honest
the four corners
is 40% stranger than you think it will be.
and that’s more or less all i know
about arizona.

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do you feel like the real l word would’ve been better if they formatted it so each person had an hour long show to themselves? shorter overall running time + more insight into each of them = win win?

did you ask me this before or after reading the thing i wrote yesterday? if you said it before, then you are a shaman! but i agree, and also think 30 minutes, not hour-long. an hour is a long time on premium cable. a really, really, really long time. The Real World was actually a 30-minute show at first, and I think it’s an hour now?

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My best friend from childhood died this summer. I go to college across the country and haven’t told anyone here. It seems awkward or rude to bring it up. But I’m so sad and no one here gets why. Do I say something? Explain myself? How do I even do that?

you should say something.
it will feel like you’re ruining their day
with your feelings
but they will want to know

maybe say, “i don’t know how to tell you that my best friend from childhood died recently and i am so sad.”
this will work better via text or chat or email
as
i believe
most things do

in the meantime, read your friend’s favorite book. it feels like eating memories
in a good way.

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