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You meet person A and you like them; you meet person B so you like them more — so you cancel your date with A and add a second date with B, or move back your date with A because you like B more but not enough to completely remove A from your schedule.
Dating in New York is remarkably rational and remarkable irrational at the same time. It is rational or irrational depending on entirely on your perspective on your own behavior. The rational organization of irrational behavior. We rationally put our irrational bullshit into neat filing cabinets.
Courting became dating became fucking — historically speaking.
A trillion times a trillion times; forever. The weight of each choice we make is crushing, because it bears the stamp of infinite repetition. This applies to courting, dating, and fucking.
