n.Offering just enough attention to keep someone waiting.
Online dating vocabularyInternet or community term
Enough to Keep Me
The pattern was eleven days.
Kwame worked it out in the second year, on a spreadsheet, which he understands is the single most humiliating detail in this account and which he includes because it is the one that finally ended it.
Eleven days of nothing. Then something. Then eleven days.
Not exactly eleven — it ranged from nine to fourteen, and that variability turned out to be the entire mechanism, though he did not know that yet.
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The something was never much.