Haha

You share a promotion. Haha. You share a diagnosis. Haha. You share funeral details. Haha.

A listener signing off as Left On Haha writes in about Nadia, who has one response to everything that happens in the group chat, and it is four letters long. Joseph gets into what "haha" actually is — not a laugh, but an exit. A way to be present in a conversation without ever being in it.

Also: the specific violence of being left on read by someone who is clearly typing, the friend who only surfaces when they need something, and why the group chat is where modern friendships go to be quietly downgraded.

Next week: the woman who wore white to a wedding.

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