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March 07, 2016

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I write on here wildly sporadically (looking at you, 2019, the year in which not even one single word was published!!!), but here are some pieces I am very proud of and, also, some pieces I am truly mortified I put on the Internet for the world to see (if you dated me in 2016, I am so sorry).

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