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The Calendar

Along came November, not a single expectation in sight. Before was October, skeptical that you’d text, but managing a word here or there. In September there was some hope, some rebalancing and figuring out where we fit each other. August was our bittersweet denouement, spending every possible moment together, as if that could ward off…

And Then My Tinder Date Pulled Out a Gun

I’m pretty trusting of people on the Internet. I successfully traveled from Boston to Ithaca with Zimride. I’ve used Craigslist to get babysitting and petsitting jobs. I looked for VidCon roommates using Facebook. Last November I arranged to stay for four days with a YouTube friend I’d never met. So when my friend encouraged me to download Tinder, an app…