Welp, this lil tale will now be published in Slate next week! (And I will be putting my social on private when it does ha). What a wild week — Substack you a fun, energizing, opinionated platform. Love all you analytical, multifaceted writers (even the haters … so long as your argument isn’t just telling me I’m a spinster cat psycho lmao).

Does anyone have a cultural or Relationship podcast that would be interested and would make sense to talk about this story? Feel like maybe it’d be worth discussing one day (though of course through the filter of ensuring the other person in this story, who gave me the green light when Slate reached out, remains anonymous.) 💛