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i saw you and your male friend across the bar and noticed you're extremely weird about each other in various platonic and/or romantic ways Mind if i obsereve

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do not go gentle into that good night

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i love the way you never get to reading that thing that interested you

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i honestly don't know how to say this but the survival of an entire group of people who are going through a active genocide should not have to depend on how well they are able to articulate and present their condition to you in a post.

but it is. a person gets donations to buy necessities if their post ends up being eye catching or something that grabs the reader's attention. what happens to those who cannot make such posts? no one's survival should depend on something like this.

i urge you to help alaa and her two young children. she needs to buy food and other necessities which are very expensive. she also needs to buy firewood regularly to keep warm.

her fundraiser has been verified.

please donate and help her out

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i’m tired and want something beautiful and big to happen to me

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i’m tired and want something beautiful and big to happen to me

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i’m tired and want something beautiful and big to happen to me

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Excuse me, professor? So, um, you paired me with Strawberry Shortcake for this assignment. Yeah so, she proofread my paper, but the only changes she made were crossing out every instance of 'very' and replacing it with 'berry'?

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Hieu Minh Nguyen, from “Staying Quiet"

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Me: You know how when you were a kid and you’d wish that you’d get sick or injured in a way that would justify why you didn’t live up to your potential?

Everybody, apparently: No?

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i’m like joan of arc if god didn’t talk to her

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Devin Kelly, from “The Old Catcher Considers the Failing of His Knees"

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I’m here to tell you the tide will never stop coming in. I’m here to tell you whatever you build will be ruined, so make it beautiful.

“Spoiler” by Hala Alyan, The New Yorker

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no no yeah you're so right that's literally it. i just have one question though. for how long exactly am i supposed to live the questions? you know, before i get to live my way into the answers?

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People will straight up call your cellphone and expect you to answer

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Devin Kelly, from “The Old Catcher Considers the Failing of His Knees"