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What It's Like Starting A New Text Flirtation

You'll want to alternately hug your phone and throw it at a wall.

You've got a new crush. It's the best.

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Progress has been sort of...slow.

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But FINALLY you have each other's numbers.

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So you decide to send a little text message. Just to say hi.

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And when your crush responds, it's the single best 10 seconds of your life.

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Your text back-and-forth consumes the next hour at least, no matter where you are and what you're (supposed to be) doing.

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But eventually you send a message that goes un-responded to.

UGHGHGHGHGH, it was a JOKE

You start to...freak out a little bit.

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Who even IS this person, and why are you always getting crushes on the most terrible ones?

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Does this person just want to be your FRIEND?

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[20 minute rage blackout]

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And then, HOURS later, a response: "lol."

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And you're like...

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You try to accept it. You've said "lol" at people you like before!! It's no big deal. Nbd.

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Eventually you decide you don't care. Or you're pretending you don't.

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But then...HOURS later, AGAIN, you get another text from this person??

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It's kind of a stupid message, to be honest.

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But then it's followed with, like, a smiley face or something. And you can't help it. You're reduced to this:

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You're back here again, somehow.

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You know this is all going to happen again tomorrow.

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Hopefully, soon, one of you will steer the conversation somewhere...productive.

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