Top 5 places to break up on campus
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Top 5 places to break up on campus

Love may blossom in DC, but it also likes to die loudly in public. After seeing more breakups than we ever asked for, we’ve noticed some spots on campus are just objectively the wrong setting for heartbreak. So, if your situationship is getting stale, or you just found out your partner’s been “studying” with someone else, follow this guide to the top five worst places to end it all—romantically, of course. 
PREVIEW: PinkPantheress @ The Anthem, 5/3
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PREVIEW: PinkPantheress @ The Anthem, 5/3

PinkPantheress is performing at The Anthem on May 3rd. Her songs rarely break two minutes; they're built like voice memos, quick and unfinished, the kind of thing you'd record at 2 AM and forget about until it shows up months later.
The Archive of Absence: A relationship with no transcript
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The Archive of Absence: A relationship with no transcript

1,019 messages were discarded when I pressed delete. 1,019 messages were what iMessage was referring to when it prompted "This conversation will be deleted from all your devices." 1,019 messages were sent back and forth over a period of four months. A relationship's strength can't and shouldn't be measured by characters on a little screen, but when you question if what you cared for was even real, you gather up every little artifact, hoping those little slivers of paper don't get lost on the way to your confetti jar. The delete button is easy. It's the aftermath that's harder, when I wonder if erasing the evidence erases the experience itself. Not that there was much evidence of a relationship to begin with; in a courtroom there would be reasonable doubt.