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Mercedes
is 45% done
“So many years of anticipating disaster is exhausting. Though I have tried to train myself not to think this way, it never works, so plan B is to go ahead and think this way but then remind myself I’m wrong. Which means I can only cobble together a life by clobbering my faulty “gut instincts” 100 percent of the time.”
— Mar 02, 2026 10:12AM
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Mercedes
is 25% done
“ I understood that I was clearly insane.
But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life”
— Mar 01, 2026 02:48PM
But he apparently hadn't picked up on how many times in one short letter I asserted that I was not. This acceptance of my questionable mental health made me feel confident that we would be compatible, possibly for life”
Mercedes
is starting
"you should get another boyfriend, somebody who's not defective like me."
"but i'm defective too!" i told him reaching across the table toward his greasy fingers "im even more defective than you are, i promise!"
— Mar 01, 2026 08:26AM
"but i'm defective too!" i told him reaching across the table toward his greasy fingers "im even more defective than you are, i promise!"
