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your twenties are a second chance at teenagehood
some comforting sentiments around aging
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when you've outgrown a lover
an autofiction piece about first loves and bad timing
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64
everything is embarrassing
on trying and failing (and trying again, despite it all)
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44
anyway, don't be a stranger
on falling out and letting people leave your life as easily as they walked into it
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50
is friendship sacred to you?
on learning to be more intentional toward my friendships in my twenties
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is friendship sacred to you?
on learning to be more intentional toward my friendships in my twenties
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18
we were never going to look seventeen forever
on bodies changing and the endless cycle of self-criticism
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18
i wish i could live through something
on the scariest week of my life that happened a couple weeks ago
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21
when the waiting never ends
a product of late-night anxiety ramblings; you know the drill
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27
no one's keeping score
on getting older, wasted potential, and comparing versions of yourself to one another (also it's my birthday)
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37
a writer who's not writing
on surviving the slow, silent killer that is writer's block
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28
everything is embarrassing
on trying and failing (and trying again, despite it all)
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44
i don't understand, i thought you liked me!
on the intrinsic need to be universally liked, but accepting the fact that not everyone will
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23
dead birds and all
i'm choosing not to take it as an omen
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14
loss or liberation?
on anti-intellectualism in music and art in light of the tiktok ban
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16
in defense of the bildungsroman
a love letter to coming-of-age stories
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20
how difficult is it to be a good person?
on casual bigotry and the regression of kindness culture
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