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Love or Something Like It - by Max Nussenbaum

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Weddings break my brain sometimes.

I went to a wedding this weekend. There’s something about weddings that makes me want to track down all the people I’ve ever been in love with, or even all the people I just thought I was in love with, and tell them that I’m sorry for all the ways I wronged them, or that I forgive them for all the ways they wronged me. There’s a brief moment during every wedding ceremony when I start thinking I should get back together with all of them: everyone I’ve ever broken up with, everyone who’s ever broken up with me, everyone where we’re not sure who broke up with who. I imagine tracking them down…

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