EST. 2026
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Vol. I / No. 1624
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Love Jun 29, 2026

She matched with her own husband on Hinge. He was single. She was not.

A woman in Nashville matched with her husband of eleven years on Hinge. He was, according to his profile, single. Never married. Looking for something serious. She was — very obviously — not single. She has…
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Internet Jun 26, 2026

She has been getting Ring notifications from a doorbell that isn’t hers. She has come to know the family.

A woman in Sacramento has, for eleven months, been receiving push notifications from a Ring doorbell somewhere in Ohio. She has never installed the app. Nobody knows why the notifications come to her phone. She has,…
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Aging Jun 25, 2026

Her 82-year-old grandfather has been writing Yelp reviews for restaurants he has never visited.

An 82-year-old man in Miami has, for two years, been writing highly detailed Yelp reviews for restaurants in cities he has never been to. The reviews are lyrical, specific, and completely fabricated. He has forty-seven followers.…
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Parenting Jun 24, 2026

Her 12-year-old has been running an unlicensed lending library from his backpack.

A sixth-grader in Seattle has been operating a small commercial library from inside his backpack. Books rent for a nickel a day. Late fees are a penny. He has, at last count, seventy-two books in circulation.…
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Money Jun 23, 2026

She has been anonymously paying off her ex-boyfriend’s student loans for three years.

A woman in Atlanta has been sending an anonymous $200 a month to the servicer of her ex-boyfriend's student loans for three years. He does not know it is her. He does not know it is…
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Identity Jun 22, 2026

The New York Times said she died. She has been trying to correct the record.

A woman in Brooklyn discovered, one Sunday morning, that the New York Times had — in a small obituary printed on page A22 — misidentified her as the deceased. It is not her. The person who…
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Aging Jun 19, 2026

Her 71-year-old mother started a podcast. It has a bigger audience than hers.

A 43-year-old professional podcaster's mother started, in retirement, a podcast called "Small Things I Have Thought About." Two years later, the mother's show has more listeners than the daughter's professionally produced one. The daughter is proud.…
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Love Jun 18, 2026

The wedding was cancelled in 2020. The WhatsApp group has been active every day since.

A bachelorette-party WhatsApp group was formed in 2019. The wedding was cancelled in 2020. Nobody left the group. Six years later, the twelve women in it message every day — about their jobs, their children, their…
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