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Jul 21Liked by Elaine R. Frieman

Oh, the adventures from the college years! If you want to remember them then it's good that you're writing it all down. I tried desperately to forget most of mine and have (happily) succeeded...for the most part. 🤣

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Haha! Well, I sort of wrote lots of things down back then and feel like this journey shaped who I am now and are part of the reasons for a successful second marriage! 🤣 But boy was I a total mess back then. 🤪🙄 I think some memories definitely should have been buried but here I am writing about my cringiest moments… 🙈

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Writing about being stood up and ghosted must be hard! Kudos to you, as always, for telling the tale and making it funny. I hope you know we're laughing with you. We all got stood up. Once I got ghosted by the guy I thought was my first boyfriend. To be fair, he didn't even know we were together.

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Oh Barbs! Oh dear re the boyfriend not boyfriend. 🙈 I think the dating scene is much worse these days so I’m glad some of these stories are now at least fifteen years old because I think it’s brutal now. Not sure I’d bounce back the same! 😅 Some of the chapters have been difficult to write but with this one, I’m sure I felt it very acutely and dramatically at the time but it was a blip! 🤣🤪 But he was exceptionally tall, like, 6’5” and handsome but otherwise we most definitely would not have been compatible (like many of my choices). My baby sis is lovely because she’s never chased any of these sorts of shallow things and as a result she’s only 21 and has had a much kinder dating history. 🤔

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