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It\u2019s interesting to think about literary genres \u201ccoming of age.\u201d Often it has to do with the arrival of a work that realizes the potential of the genre like nothing that came before it. That day has come for the genre known as Craigslist Missed Connections, where a recent post ostensibly aimed at finding the woman in the \u201cvintage white skirt and smart red blouse\u201d goes off the functional rails and lands in downright literary territory. Read the text<\/a> over at Gawker, and then tell your loved ones you love them, because you don\u2019t have enough time not to.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s interesting to think about literary genres \u201ccoming of age.\u201d Often it has to do with the arrival of a work that realizes the potential of the genre like nothing that came before it. That day has come for the genre known as Craigslist Missed Connections, where a recent post ostensibly aimed at finding the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2126,10,12,18,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-2","category-general-culture","category-literature","category-technology","category-viral"],"yoast_head":"\nELSEWHERE: A Missed Connection for the Ages<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It's interesting to think about literary genres "coming of age." 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