INGRID DOULTON | Lady Writer | CONTACT
Right across Australia today, late-20s women are arriving at their places of employment with smeared mascara and red eyes.
It can also be confirmed that long-dead group chats are reactivating, as friends from past lives reconnect and reminisce over experiences they shared in the 2010s.
This nationwide grieving process follows the news that former One Direction member Liam Payne passed away in Argentine capital of Buenos Aires overnight.
This tragedy marks the end of an era for this record-breaking boy band, and the Beatlemania-like fandom that followed their tours early last decade.
It also rules out the possibility of a reunion for the best-selling boy band of all time, who went on an indefinite hiatus in 2016.
Employers, boyfriends, husbands and dads are being advised to tread carefully today – as the millennial women in their lives enter the early stages of mourning.
The partners of these women are urged to be particularly careful, and resist feeling jealous or inadequate when confronted with the fact that they will never live up to the girlhood aspirations of marrying a boyishly handsome British pop singer.
