Amelia Lester

It's the people in the middle who are like, yeah, I mean, my life's okay.

So this is an interesting thing because in an American context for universities, you write in a little thing about how you're doing in advance of the reunion.

And for my university, it's called the little red book and it gets delivered to your house a couple of months before the reunion.

And you go through it and you look up all the famous people first and you see what they put.

And generally to my earlier point, they don't send anything in.

And then you look up all your ex-boyfriends who you know are doing disastrously.

And guess what?

They haven't sent anything in either.

So it's the people who are just like, I got a mortgage.

I got a pet.

I got a kid.

These are the people writing in.

It's the kind of people with the more quote unquote normal lives who tend to be more willing to put themselves out there.

Do we take partners?

No.

This is interesting too.

In an American context, you do take partners.

In an Australian context, you do not.

And the way this changes the dynamic is that I think this is why reunions in Australia tend to be more clicky because everyone in that room theoretically knows each other.

Whereas if you have partners there, people feel like, well, half the people in this room don't know anyone.