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Out of the Woodwork

Late August seems to signal FOMO

I dated two out of three of them. The third one was just a phone friend that also never progressed into an actual meeting for good reason, too. Things didn’t go anywhere for a reason in each case. I was therefore very surprised when they contacted me seemingly out of the blue.

Bob started texting by reminding me we had met at the diner last year and wanted to know how I was doing. It wasn’t that I disliked Bob. He knew I was dating someone when he met me. Bob had a disability, too, so I think he thought we’d be a match made in heaven.

He was hoping we could have a monogamous relationship. I made it very clear that we were not going to have much more than dates. It turned out we just had the one at the diner. He was, however, very interested in reading my work. There were some emails and random texts over the course of a year.

I asked him what prompted him to contact me again. He replied he came across my number when he was going through his contacts in his phone.

A week later, I got a similar text from Joe. I think we went on three dates last year. There was zero magic, but a definite good friendship vibe. I may meet Joe again next week.

Just last night, I got a message from Anthony on OKCupid where we had connected four years…