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Grandma’s strange trick for manifesting a crush

Spoiler: it begins with refusing to turn another person into a referendum on your worth.

By GrandmaJul 11, 20269 min readPremium archive

The conversation started before dinner

Nobody in this family agrees quietly. The question was simple enough; the answers were not. Spoiler: it begins with refusing to turn another person into a referendum on your worth.

“Know what happened. Be careful deciding what it means.”

That distinction—between an event and the story attached to it—became the part we kept returning to. Not because it settles everything, but because it changes the quality of the argument.

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