Melomiri

The Same Photo For A Year

Language: en

For three hundred and sixty-two days, I have texted my boyfriend the exact same photo as a daily check-in. He still hasn’t noticed. Other messages quickly buried the photo I just sent, rolling up and off the screen. My roommate leaned over my shoulder, her eyes wide with disbelief. "Is Gilbert literally blind? You’ve sent him the exact same picture of your lunch for almost a year, and he hasn’t noticed once?" A year ago, he asked me what I was having for lunch. I snapped a quick, nondescript photo of a turkey panini and a side salad and sent it over. He told me to keep doing it—to send him…

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