“Maybe we can tell people that I broke up with you?”
“That’s very flattering,”
“Fine. We can say that you broke up with me.”
“Because that sounds credible,”
“What if we tell people that it was a mutual breakup?”
“Sounds good.”
“Really? Great, then! We’ll—”
“We could ask Cherie to add it to the departmental newsletter.”
“What?”
“Or do you think a public announcement before seminar would be better?”
“No. No, it’s—”
“Maybe we should ask IT to put it on the Stanford home page. That way people would know—”
“Okay, okay, fine! I get it.”

📚The Love Hypothesis