'It’s like picking your best friend back in primary school – is it whoever sits next to you first?' | OPINION
It's the social conundrum only 2020 could land at the collective moccasins of Melbourne singles slowly maddening in the silent company of empty chairs and days-old washing.
"How are you supposed to have this conversation? It’s like picking your best friend back in primary school – is it whoever sits next to you first?" asks Preston yoga instructor and actor Belinda Totino.: 'F--- no, I don’t want to hang out with you?' You'd have to make something up."The other thing is, I don’t know if my house has a smell now and I’ve just become used to it.
"I’ve sort of been waiting for [a nearby friend] to ask me. She hasn’t mentioned it; just something like ‘the buddy system has got me angry’ and I said ‘yeah, it’s got me angry too’. But in my mind I was thinking 'aren’t you going to ask me?'"
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