I wanted intimacy in caps lock but I got it in parentheses. We curled into each other, upside down, my empty spaces filled by another. "Give me the three minute version of your life story, " he said. I nailed it it one then refused to throw the question back as etiquette governs. He wanted to know where I'd been. I wanted to know who he was. Eleni Zoe
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When you ask a question using only the numbers 3 and 5, you are asking a question that requires a short answer. Your story requires one word answers.You want to ask a question about your life, but you want to use a short answer for it.The three minute version is a short answer. You don't have time to tell your whole story.

Source: Hope Dies Last: Lessons In Love

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