Local Woman Rates Entire Personality Based on Whether You Dog-Ear Pages
Sources confirm she has not spoken to her ex-boyfriend since discovering a folded corner in his copy of Normal People. Experts call it 'completely reasonable.'
PORTLAND, OR — In what literary scholars are calling 'the most defensible breakup of the decade,' local woman Margaux Bellefonte, 29, has officially severed ties with her boyfriend of three years after discovering a dog-eared page in his personal copy of Normal People.
"I saw the corner," Bellefonte told reporters from her reading nook, surrounded by seventeen bookmarks of varying artisanal quality. "I saw it, and I just — I knew. I knew who he was as a person."
The boyfriend, Derek, 31, maintains that he was 'in the middle of a chapter' and 'couldn't find a bookmark,' a defense that Bellefonte's attorney has described as 'frankly insulting to the court.'
BookTok has responded with characteristic restraint, producing approximately 4,000 videos in 48 hours, most of which open with the phrase 'okay but she's not wrong though.'
At press time, Derek had purchased a set of magnetic bookmarks and was reportedly 'working on himself.'