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One weird trick: Use "cliffhangers". They make it apparent that it is a coherent whole

Hey! What a show last night! Pretty sure my ears will be ringing for the

next week. lol. It was great meeting you. I’m surprised we hadn’t met before; we have

so many mutual friends. We should hangout. Free on Saturday? I know a great

coffee shop near Chinatown that has a killer view.

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That would look really strange.

It might look strange but it would at least look like the original user crafted the entire message at once.

I think the appearance of 'desperation' arises in the reader's head because it looks like the author was hoping to receive a reply after each sentence (even if they weren't).

i.e. when received as several messages it looks like

Hello.

Are you there?

Why are you ignoring me?

Why is everyone ignoring me?

I have no life?

Waaaaaah?

Or just send it as a single message...

If you don't know how to line break (large percentage of users?) then multi-line messages aren't available in the UI...

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