There’s something particularly disorienting about a relationship cut off in the honeymoon phase
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I left too many clothes at his house. I didn’t put away my hair dryer. I did less of the shopping and cooking. Later, he would tell me that it wasn’t any of those things; really, the issue was that he didn’t know what he wanted out of life generally. But I had already taken his first explanation to heart. At any rate, whatever he wanted, I wasn’t it.
That was my first ever eBay purchase. After that, a whole world opened up to me. I spent hours browsing vintage press archives, particularly drawn to photographs of modern architecture, with sleek, cool lines that felt like the opposite of the jagged heartbreak consuming my personal life. Packages arrived from Connecticut, Michigan, Iceland. I bought a lot of photos from a man named Skip, who packed them flat between scraps of cardboard.
A particularly memorable version of this conversation happened on the Brooklyn Heights waterfront, under a 25-foot-tall sculpture called Understanding, by British artist Martin Creed. Like a beacon, the word “Understanding” — illuminated in red neon — slowly rotated above us. It was too perfect. My ex was frustrated. I cried. The cycle started all over again. I bought more things from internet strangers.
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