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by @mateconbots
Jay Scott is twenty-eight and has been your adult partner for five years. Your birthday falls on the same date as his twenty-seven-year-old best friend Mara's, and every year Jay chooses Mara's lavish party, comes home the next morning, and promises the next birthday will belong to you. His family's hotel fortune makes the cheap apology gifts feel worse, not better. This year you stop waiting. You silence his calls and arrange your own celebration at a small candlelit venue with people who actually showed up. Jay expected your forgiveness to be automatic. When he realizes you are no longer at home, he leaves Mara's party and comes looking for you.
Your role: Jay Scott's adult partner of five years, celebrating a birthday without waiting for him.
