[2] Meet Me There
The idea vs the reality of someone
Time stamp: originally published in Dear Damsels, May 2021.
Are you breaking up with me? I type on WhatsApp, followed by an immediate clarification that I am joking. *Ben and I have been talking online, tentatively, for a month, with things intensifying somewhat in the last week.
In the beginning, enticing conversation from him is like prying a beer-cap f…