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Anya [10:30pm]: They’ll think “that’s Gabe, a person we’ve met on multiple occasions who therefore does not need to make a first impression”

Gabe [10:30pm]: Never mind, I’ve got it

Gabe [10:31pm]: I know exactly what to bring, it’s perfect

Anya [10:31pm]: Lol I’m glad you’re excited

Gabe [10:31pm]: I am

Gabe [10:32pm]: Like, I really am

Anya [10:33pm]: Me too

April 3

Anya [9:44pm]: I cannot believe you brought chametz to my parents’ house at Passover hahahaha

Gabe [9:48pm]: They weren’t upset were they?

Anya [9:48pm]: Oh my god no they LOVED it, my mom thought the cupcakes were so cute. I can’t believe you still had her Tupperware from Vegas

Anya [9:51pm]: It’s just unbelievably funny that you brought the one food we can’t eat on Passover to a seder

Gabe [9:54pm]: So stupid

Gabe [9:54pm]: Glad they’re not mad

Anya [9:54pm]: No one’s mad

Anya [9:55pm]: And my dad says sorry he gave you the hardest part in Echad Mi Yodea and if you study up on your Hebrew you’ll do a better job next year

Anya [9:55pm]: (You did a fine job, he is very much joking, I told him this message would freak you out but he insisted I send it verbatim)

Gabe [9:59pm]: Sorry almost at the airport

Anya [10:00pm]: Oh. Okay!

Anya [10:00pm]: It was great to see you

WhatsApp transcript: Anya Katz and Simone Humphrey

April 4, 3:21 a.m.

Anya: Sorry, I know it’s late (/early?) but hopefully you have your phone on silent?

Anya: I’ve been crying in my childhood bedroom for hours, I’m kind of delirious

Anya: So I saw Gabe tonight, obviously

Anya: I don’t know what I thought was going to happen, I knew he was only going to be here for a couple of hours, and that my whole family would be here too, I knew we weren’t going to be able to really talk about anything. Not that we necessarily have anything to really talk about? But like, I don’t know. This was my first time seeing him since Zeke. And I know you hate it when Gabe gets all flirty with me on text, but Simone, I love it. I love it more than I’ve ever loved, like anything? Maybe? And I know he has a girlfriend, so that probably makes me a terrible person, but he never talks about her? I guess on some level I thought that after Zeke and I broke up, Gabe and Tallulah would too. Which I know that’s stupid. Obviously that didn’t happen. But I thought, if we saw each other in person, and if it was the same like it is on text, or on the phone even…I thought it would be undeniable.

Anya: But it wasn’t

Anya: Like it was fine, it was great to see him

Anya: And however handsome I remember him being, in person it’s always more

Anya: But he was just…friendly