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[craquelure]

[...] What is an unexpected skill or special interest in your repertoire.

And why did someone add a ferret stampede to Temporal Puzzle 5146.b.


BRIONY, CONSTANCE, MALLORY, THEUN, TEDDY

Is anyone a proficient driver of [...] station wagons. I have to go into Stamford this weekend and the agency burdened me with a freighter.

Comments

BCMTTS.

[tedora]

What’s wrong with holding a torch?

BCMTTS.

[craquelure]

Didn't we ju If you hold onto it too long, you burn?.

BCMTTS.

[tedora]

It’s a nice sofa, not an actual torch. It’s okay to want the comforts that you’ve experienced in the past.

BCMTTS.

[craquelure]

It fit in perfectly with my old li flat but it would clash with everything that I have to live with now.

BCMTTS.

[tedora]

Well, yes. You could have it reupholstered.

BCMTTS.

[craquelure]

Why are you so insistent I buy a new sofa?

BCMTTS.

[tedora]

You compared your current one to a cardboard box.

BCMTTS.

[craquelure]

When compared to the one I used to own. Which was [...] very high quality.

BCMTTS.

[tedora]

It just seems like you’re unsatisfied with it.

BCMTTS.

[craquelure]

It's adequate and I don't use it very often. We don't need to fix my couch situation.

baddy.

[tedora]

[…] Just to check, the couch is just a couch, correct? There’s no metaphor happening, right?

baddy.

[craquelure]

[...] No. It was perhaps one of my proudest finds, but no. It was just a beautiful, vintage, blue velvet couch and for all I know, Parker burned it.

baddy.

[tedora]

Was what you did […] bad enough for him to burn it?

baddy.

[craquelure]

I didn't think so at the time. With some distance from the situation, perhaps, but I'd recommend the scorned instead sell the couch to fund a week or two at a luxury resort.

baddy.

[tedora]

Perhaps he kept it and it’s in his current apartment as we speak.

baddy.

[craquelure]

Then I wish him and our old couch many happy returns.

baddy.

[tedora]

I will not ask him what happened to be the couch despite being curious now. You’re welcome.

baddy.

[craquelure]

The only way I know to satiate your curiosity is to tell you that, sometime between then and now, he sold our flat.

baddy.

[tedora]

To move to a different area or to […] rebrand?

baddy.

[craquelure]

I didn't ask but that was a very good way to use "rebrand."

baddy.

[tedora]

I think you may not ask enough questions, though perhaps that one would have been too prying… But thank you.

baddy.

[craquelure]

You may have noticed we don't have the [...] warmest re frie connection anymore. I'd rather not.

You're welcome.

baddy.

[tedora]

Perhaps when those four years are up.

baddy.

[craquelure]

Perhaps.

baddy.

[tedora]

But it’s also okay to keep things impersonal. Sometimes exes simply aren’t meant to be friends, either.