He is desperate, and therefore optimistic. He recently downloaded an astrology app, then downloaded another. In May, he spent a full day inconsolably distressed when the second app told him that the following month would bring about a painful reckoning in his love life. He deleted both apps and revised his opinion on astrology. No longer harmless fun, he said, no longer the inherited wisdom of our genderqueer ancestors. Rather, a sinister exploitation of heartbrokenness, he said, and it didn’t matter that he was a Sagittarius, Keith a Taurus, and Phil a Cancer, meaning that he and Keith were
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