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Ally
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I needed money before I could make that call [to the dealer]. In fact, I needed money for more than that. Life in New York cost more than it had in Boston, from subway fares to food. I only accepted the bare minimum from my parents…
[ok I think that phrase is a dealbreaker - can anyone who writes that understand the world?]
— Jan 23, 2026 01:29PM
[ok I think that phrase is a dealbreaker - can anyone who writes that understand the world?]
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Ally
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Aside from a couple of frustrated maudlin affairs with straight girls in my adolescence, I had only ever dated women who looked like boys. First I had gone from the dreamy, long-skirted, messy-haired girl to the pony-tailed high-school jock, and then the androgynous downtown college hipster, all the way to the androgynous downtown hipster transgender boy, female-to-male.
[ew the narcissism]
— Jan 26, 2026 04:24AM
[ew the narcissism]
Ally
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If that great red-walled room was a womb, I was its heart.
[huh? like the heart of an embryo? or like a really really dangerous internal hernia?]
— Jan 22, 2026 06:29PM
[huh? like the heart of an embryo? or like a really really dangerous internal hernia?]
