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Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby
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An eight o’clock movie on Tuesday night sounded plausible last Thursday, but now it’s Tuesday afternoon. I just had a lot of soup delivered while squinting at the laptop in my office, and now I don’t think I’m going to be able to make that ...more
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