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style="position:absolute;top:3252.35px;left:2761.01px;letter-spacing:-2.27px;">getting home, down in the dumps after his meeting with Penelope, activated, curs-ing his luck, the inactivate command on his profile, it took at most a quarter of an hour, and a week before he, after philosophising over it, reactivated it. As to the point when, beside himself, he first pressed the “delete my profile” button, and out of mind clicked yes to the standard question “are you really sure?” so maniacally that the whole keyboard nearly split in half and finally, as to the question of why, berserk, typed “even if I had wasted an entire lifetime on your friggin’ site, I’d never even manage to land so much as a female cat, let alone a female, not to speak of the woman of my dreams,” it was more than a year later. Here is, anyway, what in-tervened that morning less than twenty-four hours after Lila walked out on him and, well, a word to the wise :

+ as a reply to his request to meet up again.

Add the following without delay: “who had not yet given any signs of life, thankfully, as with a heavy heart – because he never failed to reply to a message – he would have to take the wind out her sails”.

- FYI: this phrase contains 115 words which, by UK and US standards, is quite far from the mark (25 on average and 75 as upper limit).

- Ok but mine is quite far from the mark of Les Misérables and In search of lost time’s longest phrases (815 and 865 respectively).

A word is by no means sufficient until you make clear that before he reached the end of his tether and pressed Delete, Activate and Inactivate were his bread and butter.

Simos Panopoulos - Look at that

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As soon as he logged onto his profile, the first thing that caught his eye – and there was no way that it wouldn’t have – was that there were about ten messages in his inbox. Incredible!!! The photos he uploaded of him-self a short while before he’d met Lila – the ones of when he was rafting in Achelous River and mountain biking at Parnitha12 – must have definitely played a part. Much like, he thought, the accompanying text would’ve:

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