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Autopsy · Subject G. ·

Perfect

No second date held. Her last message was 1 word, on October 11, and neither of us sent another. The account closes at $263.09, 210 minutes and 36 days.

This report closes the account of the subject referred to here as G., on Tuesday, October 27, 16 days after the last message between us. No date took place, nothing was spent, and nothing was sent by either party.

The account opened on September 21, with a first message I sent her, and ran 36 days. It held 1 date, on October 9, for 210 minutes and $263.09.

Summary of charges

  • Dates held: 0
  • Duration: 0 minutes
  • Messages sent: 0 by me, 0 by G.
  • Out-of-pocket costs: $0.00
  • Amount requested of G.: $0.00
  • Follow-up: none

Final, this arc: $263.09 across 1 date, 210 minutes in person, about 120 minutes by telephone and 36 days. All subjects: $3,939.81 across 3,830 minutes in person.

October 11

The second date was agreed on October 10, for sushi on Tuesday, October 13. On the morning of October 11 she moved it to the week of October 19, with no day named, and the form for October 9 records the exchange. Her last message was:

“Perfect!!”

Words received: 1. It answered mine, which asked her to let me know when she was free, and that made the next message hers. The form for October 9 records that I did not plan to send one first.

Sixteen days

The week of October 19 began and ended without a message. It was the week she had proposed, and the week before her trip.

Silences broken: 0 and 0.

Neither party declined anything, cancelled anything or set a limit. The proposal of October 11 is the last one on file, for a week that has passed.

That is the seventh account on this site closed. Five were closed by me and one, F.’s, by her. This one was closed by neither of us. A.’s closed on August 13, B.’s on September 3, C.’s on September 6, D.’s on September 9, E.’s on October 3, F.’s on October 7 and G.’s on October 27.

Relief

I was relieved.

On October 8 I concluded that our lifestyles were not compatible, and I did not tell her. On October 9 I kept the date and spent $263.09 on it. On October 10 I proposed a second. The form for October 9 entered the conclusion as still on file and not revised, and it has not been revised since. Every figure on this arc after the morning of October 8 was spent arriving where that conclusion already was.

On October 11 I asked her to let me know when she was free. It was the last decision I made on this account, and it handed the next one to her. None came, and the account closed the way I had concluded it should, without my sending the message that said so.

On October 7 the relief was entered as a sentence, because the panel has no row for it. It still has none.

Rationalizations recorded: 0.

Final accounting

  • Dates held: 1 of 2 agreed
  • Arc length, first message to last: 20 days
  • Silence at closing: 16 days
  • Out-of-pocket: $263.09
  • Time in person: 210 minutes
  • Time by telephone: about 120 minutes, on October 7
  • Cost per hour in person: $75.17
  • Travel: 100 minutes of road between us, on 1 date. Mine 60, hers 40
  • Questions asked by me and by G.: 10 and 10
  • Proposed the date: mine. Chose the venue: 2 mine, 1 hers
  • Phone checks: 0 and 0
  • Offers by G. to pay: 1
  • Contributed by G.: $0.00
  • Requested of G.: $0.00
  • Reschedules: 1, hers, to no day
  • Cancellations: 0

It is the third largest arc in the file by cost, after A.’s $2,570.94 and F.’s $630.88, and it holds the most expensive first date on file.

Costs

  • Total: $0.00

Status

The follow-up field reads none. The next message was hers from October 11, and it is no longer owed by either party.

One account is open, H.’s, with a first date set for this evening.

The account is closed. Recoverable: $0.00.

Reciprocity scorecard

Line itemNarratorSubjectTestBasis
Recorded, not counted
Duration0 minclock
Phone checks0observed
Cost$0.00observed
Requested of the other party$0.00
Follow-upnone
Reciprocity Indexundefined
Columns measuredundefined
Columns chosen bythe narrator

The index counts the rows above Recorded, not counted — one credit each, except the proposal and the venue, which answer one question between them and take a single credit for the pair. Columns measured counts those same rows against a different question, not a narrower one: whether an instrument or a person produced the figure. A basis marked † is a figure nobody measured.