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Date: 1241010249
PostID: 1145587608
Title: (free stuff) For Sale: Baby shoes, never worn.

e-mail Ernest.





 Location: Brooklyn
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Bridge Burning 101

I just stopped this all of a sudden. I don't know why.

After months and months of not talking to my ex, I sent an e-mail (which was ignored), and followed it up with an instant message two days later. They are reproduced below to help explain what's floating around in my head.

e-mail:

subject: hey

This sucks. I write you these notes now and then and never send them,
just to get them out of my system i guess. But really what they
amount to is just wanting to say hi I think. I have no idea what
you're doing-- I guess that's the point of this silence, but it's
pretty lame. I feel like super avoiding you and contact with you is
just making shit weird for no reason.


--Bill S. Preston Esq.

IM conversation:

6:17 PM me: just a recognition that we both exist is all

6 minutes

6:24 PM g: i can recognize that.

6:25 PM me: thanks buddy. it's just been a long time of that existence being kind of in the ether in some way.

6:29 PM g: i don't want to have a friendship with you sam.

6:31 PM me: I have trouble understanding how you can be so intimately involved in someone's life for so long and then just not care at all about them anymore. I'm not looking for a date to go get a burrito or anything, I'm just occasionally curious what you 're up to and would like to entertain the idea that if we ran into each other at some point we would be able to speak in that regard.

6:34 PM g: No, I'm sorry.

6:35 PM me: I guess I just should have said nothing so at least I'd get a hello.

6:36 PM So now the awkward anxiety of a meeting can return... as opposed to me just being able to say hi and turn around and get a drink or something, now what am I supposed to do? Pretending I never knew someone seems absurd.

6:38 PM We share a handful of common friends I have been avoiding to alot this space (for myself, more so), but it just seems silly.

g: i don't know what you're talking about specifically.

I'm busy at work and can't really talk about this

6:39 PM me: I apologize. I really just wanted to say hello, and was curious what you were working on. It was just about that scenario, of running into you. I should have left it out there and if it came up just said "hi"

...from afar.


After that I got no more responses.