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Notes from a Party for a Dating App “Grounded in Lacanian Psycholinguistics”

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Guests at the Readme launch party. Photographs by Matt Weinberger.
Dreams can come true, and in dreams begin responsibilities. On a Thursday in September, I embarked on an evening of the sort of arduous New York City fun I used to fantasize about as a suburban seventeen-year-old in the year 2000; if I were so lucky as to one day make it here as opposed to anywhere, I’d be breaststroking in a riptide of scene and culture.
Chelsea was balmy and abustle with people in rumpled linen and statement ey

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