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Nneka M. Okona

Aug 7, 2020

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Two Exes Wasted My Time. So I Sent Them Invoices.

Can the attempt to get paid by men who disappointed me deliver something bigger than healing?

Confident Black woman writing down invoice at her computer. — Photo: Maskot/Getty Images

Days after my 32nd birthday, I sat hunched over my computer typing feverishly into oblivion as the sky darkened outside. It was Memorial Day weekend and instead of being at someone’s barbecue drunkenly two-stepping to Earth…

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