12 Useless Things We Say To Single People On Valentine’s Day
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Julia Austin
Are you going to be…by yourself?
Oh geez. And that tone. The way people ask this question, you pause before the words “by yourself” and then sort of lower your voice as if there is shame around it. You look around, to make sure nobody is listening. You put your hand sympathetically on your friend’s arm. She’s by herself every night of the year – she can survive it tonight. She didn’t see much wrong with it until you put so much stank on it. Pity stank – the worst kind. Now she feels pressure to fumble through some lie about how her downstairs neighbor is coming up for drinks (he’s coming up to retrieve the iron he lent her).
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