'Archive zombies' will crawl back into your messages long after your interest has died

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It was a Monday night at precisely 21:09 p.m. when I got a text from an unknown number.

"Hi," it declared.

Curious about the identity of the sender, I opened the message. We'd texted before. The last message in our exchange was dated four months prior — almost to the day. 

I'd met the guy on Hinge and we'd moved things over to WhatsApp while we were arranging to meet up in person. But the date never happened. The last message I'd sent him was "are we still on for tomorrow night?" — to which I received no response. Until four months later, that is. 

I won't lie, I was pretty confused. But, I was also intrigued as to what this chap could possibly have to say after leaving me on read for so long. After a perfunctory back-and-forth, he sent a selfie and asked me to come over to his place "to watch movies :)".  Read more...

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