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  • A photo of an NYC intersection at night, with a pizza shop on the corner and traffic blurred running through the intersection under yellow streetlights
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: You’d Been Texting
    Me About Pumpkin Spice Martinis

    Stef
    Jun 10, 2021
  • A photo of a sparse dorm-style twin bed next to a window with a wooden dorm side desk and table
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: I’m Sorry I Went to the Gym
    Instead of Letting You Fuck Me in My Twin Bed

    Vanessa
    Jun 4, 2021
  • A photo of the rooftops of a Paris neighborhood transposed over a sheet of newsprint
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: You Deleted Your
    Comment on my Instagram Post

    Drew Burnett Gregory
    May 26, 2021
  • A photo of two women's hands holding coffee and gesturing at a brunch table laid over a newsprint background
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION:
    Gay Brunch Apology

    Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
    May 24, 2021
  • A photo of an NYC intersection at night, with a pizza shop on the corner and traffic blurred running through the intersection under yellow streetlights
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: You’d Been Texting
    Me About Pumpkin Spice Martinis

    Stef
    Jun 10, 2021
  • A photo of a sparse dorm-style twin bed next to a window with a wooden dorm side desk and table
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: I’m Sorry I Went to the Gym
    Instead of Letting You Fuck Me in My Twin Bed

    Vanessa
    Jun 4, 2021
  • A photo of the rooftops of a Paris neighborhood transposed over a sheet of newsprint
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION: You Deleted Your
    Comment on my Instagram Post

    Drew Burnett Gregory
    May 26, 2021
  • A photo of two women's hands holding coffee and gesturing at a brunch table laid over a newsprint background
    first person

    MISSED CONNECTION:
    Gay Brunch Apology

    Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
    May 24, 2021
missed connections
A photo of an NYC intersection at night, with a pizza shop on the corner and traffic blurred running through the intersection under yellow streetlights
first person

MISSED CONNECTION: You’d Been Texting Me About Pumpkin Spice Martinis

Me: still confused You: the elusive chanteuse
Stef —
Jun 10, 2021
missed connections
A photo of a sparse dorm-style twin bed next to a window with a wooden dorm side desk and table
first person

MISSED CONNECTION: I’m Sorry I Went to the Gym Instead of Letting You Fuck Me in My Twin Bed

Maybe I would have been something you’d be good at.
Vanessa —
Jun 4, 2021
missed connections
A photo of the rooftops of a Paris neighborhood transposed over a sheet of newsprint
first person

MISSED CONNECTION: You Deleted Your Comment on my Instagram Post

You: Sophomore, bought me a beer the night Obama was re-elected Me: Freshman, about to have my first relationship with somebody else
Drew Burnett Gregory —
May 26, 2021
missed connections
personal essay
A photo of two women's hands holding coffee and gesturing at a brunch table laid over a newsprint background
first person

MISSED CONNECTION: Gay Brunch Apology

You: The two women from my past who I judged too quickly during a chance brunch encounter Me: The dyke who apparently projected her own hangups about middle school onto…
Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —
May 24, 2021
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