MISSED CONNECTIONS QUIZ

Words by Angela Acosta
Art by Claudia Tong

Select the answer that best completes the following sentences.

1. Let me just say...
a) the thought of your absence has haunted me for over a decade.
b) I hope you are doing well in these difficult times.
c) sometimes I see a ghost of a reflection in the pictures you text me.
d) there was pain where there should have been amazement.

2. I want to find out...
a) what spoke above your radio silence.
b) what happened the night you crossed an ocean without looking back.
c) if mere mortals ever had what we had.
d) how to return the hours I lost to jet lag.

3. If you could show me one of your memories, I would...
a) look back on the day you walked out.
b) fondly remember your smile.
c) shield my eyes because I don’t know if I trust you.
d) probably forgive you.

4. You taught me...
a) a twilight gloom of what friendship could have been.
b) words in a language I hoped one day to claim as my own.
c) about adolescent angst that never truly went away.
d) about what matters from a world away.

5. I think about you...
a) almost every other week.
b) once a year, every May for some reason.
c) incessantly, longingly, hopelessly.
d) late at night when I can’t sleep.

6. We could make this work if...
a) I’m afraid there is no if, pega la vuelta.
b) you became a pen pal and wrote once a month.
c) I wasn’t so infatuated with you.
d) we closed the distance and moved in together.

If you answered mostly a then you are probably pining over a literal ghost.

If you answered mostly b then you are lost in memories of someone you knew you wouldn’t see again after graduating college.

If you answered mostly c then you had it bad for someone who will never liveup to the version of them that lives rent free in your head.

If you answered mostly d then you just got out of a long-distance relationship,but you don’t realize that it’s over