of me . . . Right now I am going to do a shot of something and go to bed.
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Subject: Re: yo
From: Emily Roberts
Date: Sun, Aug 3 at 9:47 PM
To: Madeline Whittaker
Okay, letâs hang out tomorrow.
You should take a pill.
Better than a hangover, which will make you feel worse. People take sleeping pills for a lot less.
Sincerely, Dr. Roberts, X.O.
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Subject: updates svp
From: Emily Roberts
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:19 AM
To: Madeline Whittaker
How are we today? x
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Subject: Re: updates svp
From: Madeline Whittaker
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:25 AM
To: Emily Roberts
Sometimes okay for whole minutes. Mostly.
I just want to pull my lip over my head and swallow.
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Subject: Re: updates svp
From: Emily Roberts
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:30 AM
To: Madeline Whittaker
Iâm sorry, lady. Are you sleeping okay? Want to hang out tonight?
x
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Subject: Re: updates svp
From: Madeline Whittaker
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:38 AM
To: Emily Roberts
I had a dream that Tibetan scarf guy kidnapped me and somehow Elliot was the only one of all our friends who knew how to find me and everyone was begging him to come rescue meâbecause he was the only one who could do itâbut he wouldnât pick up his phoneor answer his door. I have the most obvious brain on the planet. No wonder I got dumped.
P.S. yes please, re: tonight. Honestly I feel like crawling into a ball and doing nothing but I know I should be human.
What is wrong with me?
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Subject: Re: updates svp
From: Emily Roberts
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:40 AM
To: Madeline Whittaker
NOTHING. You willfully ignored some bad signs about a guy because there was so much good and you wanted to make it work. I donât know how to tell you not to take something as personal as this personally. But soon you will realize what Iâm typing is true.
Donât make me pull up the emails and show you how nuts he was driving you, how anxiety-ridden he was making you. Iâm not trying to downplay your heartbreakâit was real and it sucksâbut I think thereâs an ego element to this as well . . . (see also: neck scarf Jared)
Elliot beat you to it. You were ready to kill him. You would have hit a wall eventually too, you really would have.
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Subject: Re: updates svp
From: Madeline Whittaker
Date: Sat, Aug 23 at 10:42 AM
To: Emily Roberts
Trying to let all that in but the only thing that offers any consolation, weirdly, this: âit was real.â
xo
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Subject: (no subject)
From: David Meyer
Date: Fri, Sep 12 at 9:42 AM
To: Elliot Rowe
I can barely type right now. How you holding up?
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Subject: Re: (no subject)
From: Elliot Rowe
Date: Fri, Sep 12 at 11:11 AM
To: David Meyer
So glad you asked.
So I was literally a block away from my house when I get a text from that girl Leslie being like, âYou out?â I tell her that Iâm basically back at my houseâshe says sheâs going home too, do I want to come over? Obviously. So Iâm in a cab on my way to her place, when she calls me and is like, âBring pizza, Iâm hungry.â I try telling her that thereâs no pizza place around her thatâs open
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