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it’s good that you were honest with him but I think it would have been even better if you were honest at the time . Not because honesty is so great but because it would have just taken up less emotional space than this. You could have just pulled him aside when you were walking to the show and been like, “Looks like we have company, huh?”
    Because like I said: puppy didn’t know what he was doing . . . Bedtime. xo Em
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    Subject: Re: Oh, Hello.
    From: Elliot Rowe
    Date: Tue, Mar 25 at 11:00 PM
    To: Madeline Whittaker
    There you are! I was worried sick!
    Well, I’m glad the reason for your belated response wasn’t a Text Monster, but me being an idiot.
    Totally my bad on the group dinner front—definitely didn’t mean for you to read into it. For the record, those guys all really liked you. Especially Jess. And she literally hates everyone. I’m still not even sure she likes me.
    Anyway, again. Sorry. And yes—a “Bachelor”-style one-on-one date would be great. Might be hard to rent a helicopter that’ll take us to a remote Swiss chalet on such short notice, but I can take you to a movie . . .
    Chris Harrison will be conducting a postmortem, though.
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    Subject: (no subject)
    From: Elliot Rowe
    Date: Wed, Apr 2 at 10:52 AM
    To: Madeline Whittaker
    So, uh, sorry again about the Great Movie Fiasco of ’14. Next time I invite you to see “Annie Hall” at the Angelika, I promise I’ll buy tickets beforehand. (I still can’t believe it was sold out. I kind of figured everyone in New York had seen it by now) . . . I will say, though, that yesterday’s walk-out of consolation prize “Big Daddy 2: Bigger Daddy” marks the fourth time I’ve ever bailed on a movie I’ve paid money to see, “Encino Man,” “Nutty Professor II: The Klumps,” and “Love and Other Drugs” being the other three. And to walk out of a movie where Anne Hathaway’s naked the whole time, well, that says something . . .
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    Subject: Re: (no subject)
    From: Madeline Whittaker
    Date: Wed, Apr 2 at 11:46 AM
    To: Elliot Rowe
    You walked out of “Encino Man”? What were you, 12? Where did you go? Actually, don’t answer that. I like the image of you furiously riding away from the theater on your bike, grinding your teeth against your retainer. It’s kind of cute. Tell me . . . do you still possess said retainer?
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    From: Elliot Rowe
    Date: Wed, Apr 2 at 5:45 PM
    To: Madeline Whittaker
    Sorry—phone died when I was out. You know how it goes. Why do iPhones suddenly go from 11% battery to dead? What happened to that 11%? These are the things that keep me up at night.
    Anyway, what are you doing tomorrow? I’m off and I was planning on spending it getting stoned and seeing if “Encino Man” is as bad as I remember. Care to join? Lemme know and I’ll see if I can find the retainer.
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    From: Madeline Whittaker
    Date: Wed, Apr 2 at 7:48 PM
    To: Elliot Rowe
    I do know how it goes. My friend Emily dropped her phone in a public toilet once. I was brought in as a witness when the guy she was seeing didn’t believe THAT was the reason for her lack of communication.
    Yeah, that sounds cool! Just don’t