– Are you single?
\n– What?
\n– Are you single?
\n– Ah! Yes, I am.<\/p>\n
She turns around, signals towards her friend’s pocket where he suddenly produces a small piece of paper. She turns back around to me and hands it over. It’s the invitation to a pre-Valentine’s party. \nYour New Year’s Resolution: No more fucking. No more getting fucked over. No more phonecalls. No more being psychotic. No more playa-hating. No more Goodbyes. No more saying Hello. No more opening yourself up. No more compromising yourself. No more burning the photographs and the gifts. No more giving. No more taking. No. Nothing. No more Love<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Which leaves you wondering: if only single people are getting invited to this party (and I assume that is the case given the line of questioning at the dance floor) and they are going for the bitter, recently broken-up category of single people in the area, just how fucked up can the possibilities be?<\/p>\n Of course, this could have only happened to me at 330 Rich St. on a Thursday night. Where else?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" – Are you single? – What? – Are you single? – Ah! Yes, I am. She turns around, signals towards her friend’s pocket where he suddenly produces a small piece of paper. She turns back around to me and hands it over. It’s the invitation to a pre-Valentine’s party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ncoG-v","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jjmata.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nNot just any<\/i> Valentine’s party. I said “pre-Valentine’s” for a reason. The party invitation has an interesting rap to it:<\/p>\n