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When social media resurrects dead relationships

My ex posted an old photo of us from three years ago and I spent two hours looking through our old messages and now I feel hollow inside even though I know we were wrong for each other.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Digital traces of the past interrupt the natural process of letting go.

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