Sublime

it felt powerful to laugh about the world as we liked to imagine we could live in it.

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demur,

After a highly optimistic childhood and adolescence, something went wrong for Millennial young adults.

fallen women are afforded a species of freedom.

elegiac.

Never mind that almost isn’t good enough; it’s all you have.”