Jean Guerrero: In defense of ghosting: It’s useful against toxic partners and politicians
by Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times
Nov 01, 2022
3 minutes
I grew up on stories about worthy men cursed to live as beasts or ogres. Those tales taught that it was a girl’s task to liberate captive Prince Charmings with her love.
At the age of 4 or 5, I rebelled against this lesson. I was so disgusted by the Grimms’ fairy tale “The Frog Prince” that I hurled a once-treasured toy frog with all my strength over the fence at the end of our backyard, banishing it forever.
I’d watched an animated version of the fairy tale from a VHS tape depicting a
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