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*ducks go fuckin nuts*

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Concerts, college dorms, and bars were places to flirt and have inappropriate fun with myriads of other attractive young people. Even now, my girlfriends can spend hours and hours reminiscing about how amazeballs it was during that point of their lives…living it up like only hot, young people can. Then there was…very awkward me.

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The habits of trying to make yourself look as presentable as possible are still as deeply ingrained in you as they were when you were awkward and gangly and had acne, except now you’re nursing a phantom limb.

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2. You can keep your guard down and stay drama-free

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It got to the point I was afraid to leave the house. Men became so aggressively ‘friendly’ and I was constantly being approached.