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THE RE-GIFT

Your relentless SMS showering so completely satisfied my addiction to Reachability. The messages were alluring, so cute and trendy that I just couldn’t bring myself to erase them when my inbox maxed out. Obsessively, I took digital pictures of all your SMS and saved them to my desktop; like a sweetheart would with hand-penned love letters to a desk drawer. Yeah, it was romantic and it ended. (Death-by-Reachabilitiy… you know, it’s becoming so increasingly common these days.) I’ve since grieved, moved on, and slightly recovered from Reachability. But now, the SMS drawer is taking up too much space on my hard drive and I can’t bring myself to trash it because the messages are so cute and trendy. Solution: Through the art of charity, in honor of our late modern love, I’m Re-Gifting this SMS collection to others who experience the jaws of Reachability.

 

The Re-Gift, a Meta-Performance, Liz Rywelski, 6.09

 

 

Work-In-Progress. Currently exists as, SENT Text Messages, on several circulating pre-paid cell phones.