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Despite me virtually sexting him, my blacksmith is ignoring me — just like all the others before him

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

19 January 2019

9:00 AM

Splitting the atom is nothing compared to figuring out how to get hold of your farrier.

Why is the farrier more capricious than a rock star? Why does he hardly ever turn up on the day, much less time, he says he is coming? Why does he not keep a diary? Why does he never return calls? Why does he find it impossible to reply to a text, claiming all manner of bizarre contingencies including that his texts get automatically sent to his iPad, which he only checks at night? And anyway his iPad isn’t working so he didn’t see my...

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