{"id":233,"date":"2006-01-05T10:49:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-05T14:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/05\/oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave\/"},"modified":"2006-01-05T10:49:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-05T14:49:42","slug":"oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2006\/01\/05\/oh-what-a-tangled-web-we-weave\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh What A Tangled Web We Weave"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last winter, when I was newly single, I befriended this guy, Vito. I thought we had really hit it off and we hung out often and even went to New York City together to visit my good friend, Chris. Life was going great – I had a new friend. <\/P>
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However, once I met Rich and started dating him I found out Vito was actually hoping for more than just friendship with me. It only complicated matters that he worked at the same place as Rich (at a college…they didn’t know each other except by sight, though).<\/P>
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Well, Vito and I started hanging out less, but remained friends. Then a month or so later I got an instant message from this guy named Mike. He told me that he was friends with Vito and that they were looking through Vito’s Friendster contacts one night and he saw my photos\/profile and thought I was cute so he decided to contact me.<\/P>
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Flattered, we started chatting on-line and he told me he found me attractive and would love to meet and date.<\/P>
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I emailed Vito to tell him about his friend contacting me…only for Vito to say that he and Mike were dating each other! Well, they’d only been out a few times, but when I chatted with Vito, he had no clue Mike had actually memorized my Friendster profile name and contacted me. Needless to say, Vito and Mike’s relationship ended pretty fast after that.<\/P>
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UGH. So Vito and I started hanging out even less and basically stopped hanging out altogether. I never dated Mike, but did meet him once and chatted with him periodically AS FRIENDS (I was dating Rich at the time). Then we lost contact completely in late winter\/early spring.<\/P>
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Now, nearly a year later, Mike has contacted me again. I’d forgotten all about that complicated scenario last winter….but it all came back to me pretty damn quickly. <\/P>
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HMMM – I’m not sure what the reason was for this blog posting. I guess I just felt the need to vent about it. And I get to vent again tonight at therapy. But after therapy, Jason is coming over for our first Rummy match of 2006.<\/P>
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You’ve been warned – tomorow’s posting will likely be cranky (I lost) or joyful (I won). I’m hoping for the latter.<\/P>
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And here…a little funny my friend, Mark, sent me:<\/P>
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