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A Ribbon For Your Hair

Stephen Policoff

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 6d is days, 4yr is years.

Freddie deBoer liked it
There's too much yearning in the book, too much dark humor, and too much of a characteristic attempt to keep finding some thread to follow through all the sadness. This book is mournful but not bleak.

on freddiedeboer.substack.com · 27 Mar 2026

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.