Chloe CaldwellThe Thing About Not Being Heartbroken.
The thing about not being heartbroken is, you look out the window less. You don’t notice little details. You don’t invest as much in the color of the sky through the skylight, the song in the grocery store. You know nothing has special metaphorical symbolism. The leaves on the tree changing from green to orange to brown, falling and dying, the unrequited love song playing in Shop Rite. You know these are meaningless coincidences.
It’s in San Francisco when I begin to confuse real life with Instagram.
Have we met? I asked girls who get their book signed. They raise their eyebrows and look confused.
I follow you on Instagram? They respond as a question.
No, that’s not it, I say. But maybe it is.
I’m high on edibles the entire time I’m on the west coast. When I get back east, I say...
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