Sometimes I think that Sally Rooney is dramatic but then I remember that I met a guy on a dating app a year ago and we still regularly reach out to each other to catch up for seemingly no reason other than to remember that we exist, or that every day I check my inbox right after I wake up because I want to see if my long-distance friend has answered my email. Or, worst of all, that when I want to ghost somebody, I think about a boy who i ghosted two years ago who changed the title of the playlist he had made for me to “hope you’re doing well.” Love is the most excruciating and tenacious thing in my life.