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I’m a gay man, which means I’m the closest you’re going to get to a man who even remotely understands the experiences of a woman.

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3. Family Ties – Nostalgia. What’s that? I can barely hear this song over the deafening longing for my childhood.

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10. Tim Riggins, Friday Night Lights.

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So basically like strip clubs and Quidditch, that’s what I think an internship consists of.

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The first one to make a joke about a “slutty [insert boring item] costume” loses—the ability to make good jokes right before they make that joke.

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I remember wearing suspenders that had silver Michael Jackson gloves attached to them, and blasting Madonna’s “Like a Virgin” even though I was five years old and clueless about its meaning.

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Ned Vizzini is the author of It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Be More Chill, and Teen Angst? Naaah… In 2010, It’s Kind of a Funny Story was adapted into a film by the screenwriting/ directing duo behind Half Nelson.