Melissa Kite Melissa Kite

Real life | 16 March 2017

Since his ex gave him her old phone, there’s no talk with the builder boyfriend—it’s just poke, poke, poke...

issue 18 March 2017

Someone has given the builder boyfriend an iPhone and things will never be the same. Until now, he has always had a ‘rubbish’ phone and I have always been able to get hold of him. Even though I have a blasted iPhone myself, at least one of us used to have a communications device that made and received calls.

His ‘rubbish’ phone was some kind of ancient Nokia or first-generation Samsung — you know, the kind with no access to the internet.

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