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Grant Clover

@CloverGrant

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Award-winning filmmaker/screenwriter/author/poet. If left to own devices, I may be discovered to be irreversibly submerged in Dickens or watching Kurosawa.

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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
“...it was moving, he could feel it. The shadows slithering up his arms and under his clothes. He felt the push and the pull of the breath of some long-dead monster, breathing up and down his body — the stale midnight draft entering and exiting...” —Excerpt from The Town
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4 years
@just_evolved Ears like Yoda, face of Jabba the Hut, and overall complexion of the Sorting Hat, this is another whole level.
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@CloverGrant
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8 months
Our film, I Walk With Ghosts, was just selected by Cannes World Film Festival!! So grateful for this amazing distinction! @CannesWorldFilm #filmmaking #filmmaker #IWalkWithGhosts #film #shortfilm #SupportIndieFilm #indiefilm #directing #screenwriting #cannes
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” — Maya Angelou #quotes #amwriting #writingcommunity
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@CloverGrant
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8 months
12 days in, 12 wins so far! Amazed to see the reception that our short film has had so far. #filmmaking #filmmaker #indiefilm #indiefilmmaker #supportindiefilm #screenwriting #film #filmfestival
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
I know they say you shouldn’t introduce too many characters into your story too soon. But I’m only at 3000 words and already at 16745 characters. Let me know if you get this. #bookhumor #lol #writingcommunity
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
Life advice: Don’t make hot cocoa from a packet that expired in 2009... and then drink it. #ouch
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Grant Clover
3 years
“A penny for your thoughts” is honestly such an insulting expression. My thoughts are worth at least a dollar. #lol #pennies #2020everything #writerscommunity
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
I swear it’s the hardest thing in the world to finish the last ten pages of a book. There’s always something that gets in the way. #amreading #readerlife #book #fscottfitzgerald #thelasttycoon
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
1,000 followers!! Thank you everyone!!
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
Crickets With violin legs Itching out symphonies #writing #poetry #poetstwitter #writingcommunity
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
2020 Conversations Fred, wearing a mask: “yofthicmt.” Rosie, also wearing a mask: “plsilminn?” Fred, still wearing a mask: “wqwwidheus!!” Rosie: Fred, yanking off mask: “I said ‘Will you marry me?’” #2020life #americandream #truelove #conversations #random #lol
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Grant Clover
4 years
Sometimes I feel like the end of the world will be beautiful. #haiku #poetry #haikuist #writer #apocalypse
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
I just gained a very sudden deep respect for Chris Pine. #booklover #chrispine #chrispineiscarryingaGIANTbagofbooks #okay
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I don’t know who needs to see it but here are some pictures of Chris Pine walking out of an indie bookstore with a GIANT bag of books while also wearing a mask.
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Someone told me to start making to-do lists. So I made one. #lol #todolists #2020goals #hehe
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4 years
I just wrote the ending for my third book which I haven't started yet. #amwriting #fiction #author #storytelling
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
Me: [stares at computer screen] [computer sits idly on lap, staring back] Me: [thinks hard, trying to project my conscience onto Google Doc] [nothing appears on screen] Me: [glares at computer, yells] “Produce words!!” #anwriting #insanity
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
dear hollywood, i’m here.... #roadtrip #hollywood #golden
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8 months
So amazed, flabbergasted, honored, and still processing my film having the chance to make its California premiere at the historic @ChineseTheatres ! #iwalkwithghostsfilm #film #shortfilm #filmmaking #screenwriting #filmfestival #silverscreen #memories
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4 years
...when you write an email complaint and Grammarly tells you it detects a Joyful Tone.... #grammar #2020life #amwriting #lol #what
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4 years
BOOK (Bü-k) DEFINITION: Portable world and time machine. SYNONYMS: Sanity, Peace, Art, Drug, Beauty, Mirror, Papyrus-Wrapped Life Form (archaic) ANTONYMS: Hell, Anarchy, Mud, Cataracts, Present (Tense), Boulder, Frown #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #books #reader
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4 years
If you have a dream, make sure to swallow it. *follow it. Autocorrect. #lol #autocorrect #amwriting
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4 years
Whoever first started the expression “well, I guess I’ll bite the bullet” must have either had excellent dental insurance or a questionable knowledge of how to assemble a gun. #honestly #idioms #weirdexpressions #lol #haha #humor #bitingthebullet
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4 years
#Tenet has been postponed indefinitely.... My 2020 expectations from now on:
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
Are you supposed to dress up for a virtual wedding?? #quarantinewedding #quarantinequestions #quarantinelife
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
What I tell idiots: Be a good woodpecker and use your head. #idiots #lol #useyournoggin #besmart
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Grant Clover
4 years
Its fingers wind shadows against the wall, strewn like long branches curling in a gale. I don’t know what it is, for I’ve never seen it. But I watch its threatening shadow dance with wild shapes, while its voice wafts around me in quiet whispers — an echo chamber in my head.
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4 years
I listened to a country song while cruising down the highway today and found myself craving a cowboy hat and a bald eagle. I almost bought a truck halfway through the song. It is stuck inside my head now.... why am I looking at apartments in Texas...? #country #music
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4 years
Stepping out into unknown waters and crafting an apocalyptic gothic/horror short story/novella. White skies, decaying wood, town with a heartbeat, memories like ghosts... The Town. #shortstory #writing #writer #author #amwriting #books #apocalyptic #drama #thetown
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Grant Clover
4 years
Anyone else wish they could live in a black and white movie? Foreign gray bars with a soft cigarette haze, a piano man crooning “As Time Goes By”, as well-dressed lovers sway in each other’s arms... and some ache over distant memories of Paris.... #blackandwhite #movies #paris
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4 years
Civilization steps tentatively into the shallows of July. “Oh God, have mercy on us...” they whisper feebly. #july2020 #2020SoFar #apocalyptic #covidlife #stillwearingamask #quarantine
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Grant Clover
4 years
Always think before you spoke. I mean, speak. #advice #lol #speaking #words #writingcommunity
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4 years
I like adding -esque to the end of words. Makes me seem sophisticated. Example: My, that’s a rather couch-esque chair. Example 2: What a beautiful-esque hat you’re wearing! #random #beingliterary #WritingCommunity #amwriting #author #grammar #lol #haha
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4 years
Aliens: [fly suspiciously in the corner of a government radar] Mankind: [screams] Aliens: [laugh maniacally and land on earth] Mankind: [panics and burrows underground] Aliens: [get Covid] #apocalypsestories #aliens #covidlife
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The world opened like a flower of flames — an orange celestial rose. Petals of light expanding and spreading out, crashing in tidal waves of light over the unsuspecting stars.... #randomwritings #thoughts #apocalypse #writing #author #poetry #amwriting
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Grant Clover
3 years
Twitter told me I have to celebrate my one year anniversary of being on Twitter. So uh yay, I’ve been on Twitter for a year. I guess I’m proud of myself? I don’t know. This is my first Twitter birthday, I’m still sorting through all these unfamiliar, infant emotions. #tweet
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4 years
When things go left, go write. #amwriting #writerscommunity
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4 years
the boy stared into the fire, falling into the hypnotic sway, the glowing dance, until his eyes flickered with the same light, the same twists and folds of magic. the girl sat beside him. “Do you feel it too?” #fire #amwriting #beautifulwords #writingcommunity #author
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
@goodreads Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. Such a wonderful book.
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4 years
Don’t you love it when your evening is free, and you somehow end up in Hollywood by the end of the night?? #random #lol #mylife #2020vibes
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
Watching the moon outside my window sit in the night sky hovering in its immortal pale halo, listening to Bruno Major.... I’ll sleep when I’m older.
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4 years
If you were invisible, what would you do all day?? I’m curious. #invisibility
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4 years
I’m not a fan of fans... *laughs and then looks at the floor solemnly* #lol #random
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4 years
@RomriellNeal This disturbs me.
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@CloverGrant
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4 years
I have a joke about writers and it will flummox every granule of rational cognizant semblance of thine in one mentally catastrophic disengorgement of a guffaw. #ihaveajokeabout #jokes #punny #lol #haha #writingcommmunity #writing #bigwords #guffawing
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4 years
Stare at the ground Thinking The sidewalk fills with stars Your imagination spilling onto the concrete. #poem #poetry #poet #poemthatdoesntrhyme #imagination #stars
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Grant Clover
4 years
Ghosts are just people’s excuse to wear their bed sheets for a whole day once a year. #halloween
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
3 years
Nowadays you can respond with “Yeah, 2020...*sigh*” to anything and everyone will accept your response as satisfactory... #SmallTalkStrategies #lol #haha #granthumor #2020vision #trying
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
I say we celebrate graduations this 2020 year by doing one grand international ceremony live for everyone. Emcee: “Aaron A. Aalagars.” *quiet cheer from camera guy* Emcee: “Aaron A. Aalagart. Aaron A. Aalagau....” #2020graduation #2020IsBadBut #grad #lol #haha #2020life
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
...when you are up making tea late at night and get to writing poetry that doesn’t rhyme. #poetry #poem #freeverse #writer #writing #poet #author #latenightthoughts #midnightpoetry
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4 years
I sink beneath the silky tides of Sinatra, his voice quicksand—a moving image of the sky in ebb and flow, blue washing up and down the celestial shore. I wake up with earbuds dangling loosely from my ears.... If you are but a dream. #sinatra #frank #oldies #oldrecords #music
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I think I’m trilingual. First language: Sarcasm. Second: English. Third: Pig Latin. I’m so martsay. #sarcastic #lol #random #language
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4 years
Expectation: Write a screenplay that will be bought by Netflix, directed by Spielberg, acted by Ryan Reynolds, and tops the streaming charts. Reality: Write a screenplay that will sit on my desk in a mess of papers for the rest of my lifetime... #writingcommunity #screenwriter
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Grant Clover
4 years
I’m sure this is because of me somehow.... #grant
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
3 years
That moment you put off reading a school book because you want to focus on writing your essay and then realize a day before the essay’s due that you’re writing an essay on that very book... #finals #collegelife #tired #essays
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4 years
I’m good at wrapping my head around things. My head is very bendy. #random #idioms #lol #writing #bendyheadgang
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4 years
the mountain sank into white, the sky melting and freezing into fragile clouds, that shatter into icy artworks—snowflakes. spilling onto the trees like tatters of a crystal blanket. #randomwritings #poetry #amwriting #writer #writingcommunity #beautifulwords
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Me: reads a book about loneliness Me: finds it sad Me: looks around my room Me: doesn’t see any humans Me: realizes I am alone because of the book Me: becomes very conflicted LATER Me: reads another book about loneliness for answers #amreading #books #facts
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4 years
Someone: “What’s it like wearing a mask for six or more hours everyday at work?” Me: “Well, it’s good practice for when I become a superhero.” #quarantinelife #masklife #chickfila #workingagain #returningtowork
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4 years
“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” —Virginia Woolf #quotes #inspirational #literature
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4 years
It is just me, or do other people also attempt acrobatic feats, twisty impossibilities, and upside-down stretches when trying to reach for their phone charger while laying in bed?? #lifequestions #quirks #what
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
3 years
People: This TV show is so unrealistic. The main characters literally never get hurt at all. TV show: *kills a main character* People: WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU HURT A MAIN CHARACTER??!? You psychos!! #Mandalorian #spoilers #lol #series
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
4 years
Summer vibes... and unintentional @CocaCola ad. #summerrefreshments #drinkofthecentury
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@CloverGrant
Grant Clover
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It’s October and I’ve started my horror binge already… Here are my last four watches. Any other suggestions? #horror #movies #october #halloween #johncarpenter #HorrorMovie #classics
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Grant Clover
3 years
For a short moment, The sky falls into my hands: I cup it’s blue grief. #haiku #poetry #writingcommunity #poem #sky
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3 years
Dear Twitter, I already post my fleeting thoughts. It’s called #Tweeting . #relatable ?
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Grant Clover
4 years
It’s days like today that I suddenly start missing Robin Williams again. #kingofcomedy #robinwilliams #screenlegend
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Grant Clover
4 years
First step to becoming famous: start tweeting. Check! #firstpost #herewego #author
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4 years
No one: People on Fourth of July: “Let’s blow bombs up in the sky to watch for entertainment.” #4thofJuly #july2020 #covidlife #fireworks #patriotic
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Took a sip of some protein drink and felt like my whole world was about to explode into a confetti of gluten-free health dust. Can’t figure out if that’s a good thing or not. The taste in my mouth says no.... #health #greendrinks #lol #writer
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My night: After binging three horror movies today, I’m asked to walk outside into the dark alone to retrieve a trash can from a spot up in our backyard.... I turn on my phone flashlight, shine it on the can.... to see a big, poisonous spider crawling across the handle....
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4 years
“Give me [tacos] or give me [burritos]!” —Patrick Henry (Paraphrased) #famousquotes #patrickhenry #burritohumor
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3 years
All ads ever: Are you having marriage issues? Are you experiencing kidney failure? Don't you worry, Walmart's got you with all new contact free pick-up! #ads #lol @Walmart
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Grant Clover
3 years
We already know it’s a crime thriller because Adam Driver stole from Chris Evan’s sweater collection from Knives Out. #adamdriver #ladygaga @ladygaga #ridleyscott #gucci #sweaterlegacy
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4 years
“Yeah” looks, sounds, smells nothing like “eyeshadow”.... Go away autocorrect.
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Grant Clover
3 years
Harsh writing advice: Stub your toe, describe the pain. Channel that into your characters. Before you ask.. yes, this is necessary. #blindlyfollowingtrends
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fresh leather-bound book + steaming cup of tea + warm crackling fire = utopia #booklife #reading #writer #books #tea #reader #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #utopia
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4 years
Good things come to those who wait. Excluding every character in Jurassic Park. #movies #relatable #lol
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4 years
Is there a song from a musical that sums up your life? #broadway
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4 years
Doctor: *walks into room* Hello, Grant. My name is Dr. Salt. I will be your chief physician today. So, you’re here for your broken femur, correct? Me: Where’s Dr. Pepper? *looks at the ground and stifles a laugh* #humor #conversations #lol @drpepper #drpepper
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Unbeatable.
@davidcinema
Taste of Cinema
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What is the best movie you've ever seen that you appreciate more with age?
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3 years
Imagine if you cracked a fortune cookie open to read: Something incredibly heavy is about to fall on your head. #Showerthoughts
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Grant Clover
4 years
The June bugs just arrived... and it’s July. Time is irrelevant. It’s true. #stopmessingwithourheads2020 #july2020 #2020life #junebugs
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“...pick the stars one by one like forget-me-nots from the field of twilight, catch the moon and do not let it run...” —one of my @spotify playlist descriptions. (I feel like I need to explain myself, but oh well...) #amwriting #poetry #PoetsTwitter #lol #random #music #oldies
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I think I met @LilNasX today. How was your day? #oldtownroad
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