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I went to Erosland last Tuesday. I went alone. I rode the Whiplash Coaster with a stranger, and for three seconds on the drop, we held hands. At the gift shop, I bought a cheap keychain that reads "I survived." I lost it by Friday.

The point was that you showed up.

Don't eat the cotton candy. It tastes like the first three months of a relationship—sweet, airy, dissolves on your tongue into nothing, and leaves you sticky and unsatisfied. erosland

Not "Eros" as in the sterile, pink-glowing, heart-shaped-bed version of love. Not the Hallmark movie. No, I mean the raw, splintered, chaotic Eros . The Greek primordial god. The creative destruction. The force that makes you rewrite your entire five-year plan because someone laughed at your joke in an elevator. I went to Erosland last Tuesday

Then there’s . It’s a dark water ride. You sit alone in a swan boat that’s seen better days (one eye is missing). The tunnel is cold. The walls project old text messages, blurry photos, the scent of a perfume you can no longer remember. It’s a haunted house for the heart. You don’t scream. You just sit quietly, letting the water carry you toward an exit that looks exactly like the entrance. At the gift shop, I bought a cheap

Erosland is the strangest theme park you’ll ever visit.