If the word friend stings, a little, then it doesn't show on Marianne's face. She just smiles at him.

"It's happened to me a few times," she says. "I'll be texting someone for a while, think it's going really well and then...poof!" She makes a gesture with one hand. "They just stop replaying. It happens enough that there's a name for it. You call it being ghosted."