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Her response was truly iconic.

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You’re totally fine, and then it hits. The pain. The agony. The sobbing into your best friend’s blouse at 3AM, surrounded by pizza crust and empty beer bottles.

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Don’t back down, feel inferior, or even feel different. “You are nothing less than anyone else.”

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I like that in the middle of the day I will find myself giggling at some memory of him; something he did or said that is still just as funny. I like that he notices things about me that other people don’t.

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Shroud yourself fully in artistry. Aestheticize all your feelings. Realize that artifice has its own way of being authentic.

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Within minutes of casting my eyes upon his slender frame, nerdy-chic wardrobe, and witnessing his lyrical genius, I melted into one smitten kitten.

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Lacan: “You probably can’t understand anything I say.”

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The response to her decision to judge other women based on how many people they date has become to do it to her, en masse, with absolutely no remorse. We’ve come full-circle on our slut-shaming, and see nothing strange about this.

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But, oh Gillian. YOU KNOW JUST HOW TO TUG AT MY RAW CIVIL WAR HEART STRINGS. Gut me like a fish, please.