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“I don’t think things are going to work out between us.” It’s a sentence that seems too final, too absolute. What if my date from last weekend thinks I’m arrogant for writing a text like that? Instead, maybe not texting or talking to them at all will make things easier. But for whom? Mostly just for the one doing the ghosting. It can happen to anyone, and “Charlie’s Angels” star and talk show host Drew Barrymore revealed in a 2022 interview with People magazine that she, too, had been a victim. Early in the 2000s, the term “ghosting” emerged in the Western dating scene to describe when someone…