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Your mother has been talking about someone she met in a hiking group online. She has shown you these messages herself, because she wants you to see that he is nice. She is right that he is nice. Read it the way you would read it at her kitchen table.

Marcus, met eleven weeks ago · 19 messages over 74 days · nothing is asked of you but attention

A composite, not somebody's real messages. Assembled from documented patterns. Nobody's conversation has been published here.

Read the whole thing first. Then click the message where you think it turned, the one after which the rest was always going to happen.

  1. Mon, March 2

  2. Tue, March 3

  3. Thu, March 5 · 2 days later

  4. Fri, March 6

  5. Mon, March 9 · 3 days later

  6. Mon, March 16 · A week later

  7. Tue, March 17

  8. Tue, March 31 · 2 weeks later

  9. Wed, April 1

  10. Wed, May 6 · 5 weeks later

  11. Thu, May 7

  12. Wed, May 13 · 6 days later

  13. Thu, May 14

Nothing marked yet

There is no score and no timer, and the mark can be moved or cleared as many times as you like. If you want to read it twice before marking anything, that is the correct way to do this.