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The 47th phone call was the one that finally got through
After my brother and I stopped talking over a loan he never paid back, I kept a tally on my phone. Not to be petty, but to see when I'd give up. 47 calls over 8 months. Some were just voicemails, a few were actual conversations where he'd change the subject. But number 47 was when I finally said what I needed to say and hung up without waiting for his excuse. That number mattered because it was past my old limit of 30. I used to bail on people right around 30 tries. Hitting 47 showed me I wasn't the one who quit early. He still hasn't called back, and I'm fine with that. Has anyone else hit some weird specific number before they let a bridge burn for good?
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martin.paige1mo ago
Hit my own weird number at 11, after my childhood best friend ghosted me over a stupid argument about a party. Eleven felt like a lot for someone I'd known since kindergarten, but it was the number that finally made me realize I was done chasing someone who didn't want to be found.
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