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Like my fellow unlucky-in-love 2020 daters, I didn’t ask to fall for someone as our world devolved into absolute chaos.

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Not everything that clicks is meant for you to keep, especially when that someone or something is already taken by somebody else.

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Let’s take a page from the book of the wise generations that came before us.

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but throw the “How to Get the Guy/Girl” books and articles in the toilet.

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I have spent way too much of my single life worrying about the passage of time.

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As I’m sure you know, even one of these ideal relationships that appears — even on close inspection — to be heading towards a lifetime of wedded bliss, can be derailed like a train

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There is nothing wrong with being single.

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I’m tired of this fakery routine of modern dating. I’m tired of my own conditioned superficiality

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I guess the lesson is that women like men who do what they’re supposed to do.

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I guess what I’m saying is that you shouldn’t have to depend on someone—a romantic partner in particular— to find your way through life.