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Uber Drivers, beware. Once your passengers take a ride in this car, it’s gonna be hard for you to get that five-star rating ever again.

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So I guess if they run into the night, I can smack their ass on the way out, and find a man who likes to be chosen — who likes to be pursued right back.

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I used to go around and ask every smart person I met—even emailing important people I didn’t know— “What books do you recommend to a kid like me?”

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You are the city I grew up in.

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Because I couldn’t stop thinking about what your face would look like when I read it to you.

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I write a lot about mental health, and I think a lot of people assume that I love Sylvia because we’re both part of the Depressed Ladiez club.

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As one of my favorite 90’s tracks of all time, this song always projects an instant sense of nostalgia for me. Although I was only 7 years old when it was released, my friends and I frequently played this song during our Saturday tradition of Beer Olympics in college.

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I can hear it now … the unmistakable brass jingle that introduces the chorus of Jason Derulo’s “Talk Dirty.” I can picture the cool dance they do with their silhouetted bodies in the music video.

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So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.

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That’s not to mention the community one finds among fellow readers. Even if you like Fitzgerald and another prefers Hemingway, you can still argue ideas and themes with thoughtful criticism, at a length and with depth that no other form of entertainment affords.