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THEHUMAN DIARYThere is a word for what you felt.
Relationships

n.A relationship with all the feeling and none of the definition.

Online dating vocabularyInternet or community term

The Word We Don't Use

Fourteen months in, Zoya's mother asked what Arjun was, and Zoya said "a friend," and heard herself say it, and had to go and stand in the kitchen for a minute.

Because here is the inventory.

He had a toothbrush at her flat. Not a spare — his, the specific one, the electric one with the travel case, which is not a toothbrush a man leaves anywhere casually.

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