endings - by Elaine - manners & mystery
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the way we do breakups is wrong
Albert Bloch, Duel, 1912 At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, I truly believe that when someone you really care about breaks up with you, they are breaking a piece of your soul. We’re all connected by virtue of living on this planet, but there are certain people whose existence matters deeply and personally to us, whose lives are entangled with our own. We carry their feelings, thoughts, and spirit everywhere we go, within our own body, mind, and soul. As the philosopher Agnes Callard puts it in her 2021 Harper’s Magazine essay “Breaking Points”: “You can’t waltz by yourself. When I…
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