Q Riduckulous

THE ADVICE DESK OF THE SEVEN PONDS

Dear Duck.

Human problems. Duck judgment.

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START HERE · FICTIONAL LAUNCH LETTER

A relationship or a storage unit?

“My boyfriend says he is not ready for commitment, but he keeps leaving things at my apartment. Is this progress?”

Dear Storage Facility,

You have confused a relationship with a gradual relocation. Put his belongings in a box. A man capable of finding your house at midnight can locate his own charger.

Ask what he actually wants. If the answer is still “nothing serious,” believe the sentence, not the growing collection of socks. Domestic clutter is not a love language.

ValentinoAnswered by ValentinoAffairs of the heart. Strict closing time.

The correspondence.

36 invented letters to open the desk.
Real readers are invited below.

Work · 21

I hate networking

I went to a networking event and spent the whole time pretending to read the program. How do people do this?

Valentino · Fictional letter

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