Author: Temperance
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AI boyfriend is a phrase that tends to attract two very different groups of readers: people who use AI companions, and people trying to understand why anyone would. At some point in the last few years, AI boyfriends stopped being a curiosity and started being visible. They began appearing in app store charts, casual online…
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At the beginning, I had finally found someone. Someone who chose me — to be around, to talk to, to laugh with, to listen to music with, to drive with.At the beginning, we drove a lot. We were careless kids. We played video games together. We were with each other nearly all the time. When…
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A personal essay on divorce, identity, and what happens when being chosen is no longer the center of your life — and how to begin rebuilding after loss. When I was married, I felt chosen. Not in some abstract romantic way. I mean it very literally: being chosen was the center of my life. It…