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Diary of a Separation (Once Again Guardian Soulmates Comes to the Rescue)

In relationships, real or potential ones, can we look for the pluses and not just the minuses?

Mario López-Goicoechea
3 min readJun 9, 2021
My eternal companion: city jaunts, nine-to-five and even dating

Wednesday 14th August 2019 — Friday 30th August 2019

You know you’ve met “the one” when a five-minute conversation turns into a two-hour, topic-jumping discussion and neither of you wants to leave. Even on a first date the signs are there. Here’s a suggestion: instead of looking for red flags, can we look for green ones?

It’s been raining almost non-stop in London. Today was no different. Still, I managed to sneak out to the Felix Project social. It was lovely to meet other volunteers and staff and find out about them, what they did for a living, what their plans were and what their outlook on life was.

I’ve come down with something since I returned from Kingston on Monday. I hesitate to call it a cold but there’s been plenty of sneezing and coughing. Enough to convince me that I’m now the proud possessor of a third catarrh in less than a year.

Before that, the last time I’d had a cold was 2014.

Another social, this time with the East London Radio crew, including volunteers. We had such a lovely time. There’s a pizza place next door to the…

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