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Aishwarya Kapoor

Why You Stay Friends With All Your Exes and What Your Attachment Pattern Is Really Saying

The Collection You Call Closure

You have his number saved under his name, not under "don't pick up." You still send the one before him memes about the show you used to watch together. The one from three years ago texts on your birthday and you text back, warmly, because why wouldn't you? You are not bitter. You are not stuck. You are, by your own accounting, someone who simply values people regardless of how things ended.

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