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LIFE CYCLE OF AN IMAGINARY BOYFRIEND
LIFE CYCLE OF AN IMAGINARY BOYFRIEND

My heart starts cramping in my throat, that sort of bleak gut feeling. Still I don’t want to ghost the guillotine.

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Lizzy SazegariXO MagazineFebruary 13, 2025
WHY ARE ALL THE GIRLS 17?
WHY ARE ALL THE GIRLS 17?

To be honest, I never thought about our relationship all that much. There was nothing to think about.

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Emerson RhodesXO MagazineFebruary 12, 2025
THE GHOST OF ALMOST
THE GHOST OF ALMOST

I’m terrified that the ghost of “almost,” of “what if” will define me for a very long time.

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Noel RosaniaXO MagazineJanuary 22, 2025
QUIET QUITTING ON LOVE
QUIET QUITTING ON LOVE

Sometimes he’d squeeze my lower back in just the right way, and it felt like intimacy. I swore it was intimacy.

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Catherine DuXO MagazineJanuary 21, 2025
INTIMACY OF A WAX
INTIMACY OF A WAX

The line between platonic and sexual encounters is often quite thin; it depends upon how long you linger.

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Dorrit CorwinXO MagazineMay 3, 2024
SILVERTONE
SILVERTONE

The smallest state feels a hell of a lot smaller since you left.

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Mason ScurryXO MagazineMay 3, 2024
DESIRE
DESIRE

All of my questions had answers that only he knew. I hoped that I could find them in the way he looked at me.

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Violetta BalkoffXO MagazineApril 23, 2024
LOVE BITES: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE
LOVE BITES: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE

From mendacious phone calls to duplicitous gaslighting, our contributors share their encounters with relationship Pinocchios.

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XO MagazineMarch 11, 2024
APART FROM MY AWAKENING
APART FROM MY AWAKENING

But, I must confess something to myself too: I don’t think I’ll ever get over her. Does anyone ever move past their first?

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Gabrielle YuanXO MagazineMarch 7, 2024
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