Death cleaning my burner accounts: a rabbit hole filled with the droppings of rabid rabbits

 

Subject: Thanks for reading!
To:         p*********@gmail.com
  
Sat, Aug 24, 2024 at 11:22 PM

Wow, I'd forgotten all about those ads. What a blast from the past! I lost access to that DoubleList account years ago when I failed to update my phone number. I don't remember getting many responses back then, so I just leaned into the "here are all the random thoughts in my head" personal ad template. Anyway, you're sweet to answer an ad that old (and funky) and to wish me well, especially when I sound like such a desperate clod. 

Since placing those ads, I did break my lonely streak, and I had a mini relationship of sorts which lasted a little over a year. Although it was mutually beneficial for a time, we had some fundamental issues that kind of doomed us from the start. That was over a year ago now, and I'm still a clod, I guess, but I don't feel as desperate. I still wouldn't mind having a few more cool experiences along the way, but I'm not desperately seeking Susan or anything. 

I haven't found it to be true that when you aren't looking for it, love will somehow find you. Love eludes me whether I pursue it or hide from it. I probably sound cynical or at best ambivalent. I guess I've let emotions get the best of me in the past, and I keep falling for the velvet allure of infatuation at every opportunity, only make a fool of myself or self-sabotage, and inevitably, I wind up alone. Rinse, repeat, recuse, retreat.

Anyway, thanks for the fun pictures and well wishes. Yeah, everyone needs someone to flash them from a tree once in a while. That's a vibe one can definitely get down with. Are you really homeless? How did that come about, if you don't mind my asking? You don't need to disclose all kinds of personal stuff if you'd rather not. 

Thanks again for answering my time capsule message in a bottle!
Andrew