make out with strangers

taken from the advice column 'savage love' in this week's weekly dig:

tired of her wrote: it's been about eight months since i was dumped and every day i still think about the girl who broke my heart. how do you get over a break up?

dan savage: sometimes a cliche is all i've got: time heals all wounds - time, and of course, fucking other people. did you know that every ounce of another woman's saliva that you swallow shaves a week off the healing process? it's a true and totally scientific fact.


thank you, mr. savage, for so eloquently articulating exactly what i've been trying to convey to a handful of friends who have recently taken on the grating status of 'ex-lover'.