Jazmine Hughes @jazzedloon Twitter profile

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Jazmine Hughes

@jazzedloon

4 years

THE LADY IN SWEETGREEN SAW MY CROCS AND THANKED ME FOR WORKING IN MEDICINE!!! IM NOT A DOCTOR MA’AM IM JUST GAY!!!!!!!!!

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Joe Biden

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My running mate will be a woman. #DemDebate

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Every time I lose weight I think “this is just like when Rihanna got skinny” and every time I gain weight I think “this is just like when Rihanna got thick”

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All respect to the woman who just leaned out of the window of her apartment and screamed, “I’M BORED”

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5 years

phone keys list of questions for rihanna wallet

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4 years

not a phone in sight literally just vibin

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Barcelona's Liceu Opera House reopened its doors for the first time in over three months to hold a concert for an audience of nearly 2,300 house plants

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2 years

yet another pillar of journalism crumbles to dust

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‘THE WENDY WILLIAMS SHOW’ will end on Friday.

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3 years

we got here because of darnella frazier, who was 17 years old when she filmed george floyd's murder. i am forever grateful to her.

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2 years

Best part of this process: After I left Viola Davis' house, my Uber driver asked if she was my mom – not bc we look alike, but bc of how she locked her eyes on him, to make sure I'd be safe. My @nytmag story of one of the greatest actors of our generation

Viola Davis, Inside Out (Published 2022)

How she drew on a life of private hardship to become one of the greatest actors of her generation.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

I’m Brooklyn sober (weed, natural wine, the occasional martini)

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4 years

as if it weren’t already hard enough to be a black employee of the New York Times

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2 years

Now that Rihanna is pregnant I hope this means we’ll get more research on whether pregnant people can safely consume marijuana

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4 years

My dream job, and I feel beyond lucky. Please send tips, complaints, advice and skateboarding tricks my way. I want to do right by New York.

NYTimes Communications

@NYTimesPR

4 years

We're excited to announce that Jazmine Hughes ( @jazzedloon ) is taking on a new role where she’ll be writing full time, both for @nytmag and for @nytmetro .

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Lil Nas X is by no means our first gay pop star, but when it comes to comfort and pride and being just as proudly sexual as straight people are, he might be our best. I profiled him for this week’s cover of @NYTmag

The Subversive Joy of Lil Nas X’s Gay Pop Stardom (Published 2021)

A peek into a hot boy summer filled with new highs, disappointment and growth.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

Only two types of depression: “ass getting small” and “ass getting fat”

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4 years

Running this put Black @nytimes staff in danger.

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heard "electric feel" for the first time in years last weekend and had a completely humiliating reaction (euphoria)

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3 years

never feel more like a responsible young adult woman who’s balancing life love and having it all than when I consume a small square of dark chocolate before bed

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5 years

I wrote about the highest-paid, top-rated, biggest, baddest host — and ponytail — on daytime TV. This is a profile of Judge Judy.

Judge Judy Is Still Judging You (Published 2019)

For more than 20 years, Judith Sheindlin has dominated daytime ratings — by making justice in a complicated world look easy.

www.nytimes.com

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7 years

this white man is invited to the cookout for the rest of his life

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4 years

"First of all, Trump is very lazy. I can tell you, the same way basketball players say “game recognizes game,” sloth recognizes sloth."

Fran Lebowitz Is Never Leaving New York

The writer on growing old, life in quarantine, and the sadness of seeing her city shut down.

www.newyorker.com

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3 years

Girl at the skate park told me I look “amazing for my age” (I’m 29)

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7 years

my exclamation key button broke and now all my emails sound like they were written by a man

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4 years

hard 2 discern the difference btwn "feeling like death is imminent, everyone has betrayed me, the room is closing in and the light of the tunnel is growing closer" and "being a lil hungry"

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4 years

To be clear, this story endangers *all* black people, NYT staffers and not. But for this, this is a labor issue. This is our livelihood. This is embarrassing.

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2 NYT employees who complained about this op-ed on company slack had their messages deleted bc they were in "violation of rules against public protest" the issue isn't that op-ed writers can say whatever they want, it's that they're the only employees who can say anything

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3 months

Another day, another transphobic New York TImes article. Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria isn't real. There's no evidence of it. They've tried to find it. So now they've changed the definition of "Rapid" to 2-4 years.

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2 years

do you think jesus had an anxious or avoidant attachment style

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7 years

Tonight, a small New York dream came true: a homeless dude looked at me and said "suck my dick, Beyoncé"

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3 years

spent my entire young adult life in a christian church and yet just realized that "as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death" is not a coolio original

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8 years

Michelle Obama / Michelle Obama 2016

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7 years

Just ran into Bernie Sanders in the NYT building – got so nervous I made this face 😱 and he made it back at me then we fistbumped AM I DRUNK

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5 years

take it from me, a magazine editor: nothing should be 10,000 words

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4 years

The Guild statement – which I helped draft with many, many others – fully recognizes that the op-ed desk has a responsibility to publish a diverse array of opinions, many of which people may find disagreeable! Cotton's op-ed, however, clearly crosses a line.

NewsGuild of New York

@nyguild

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Our statement:

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“The way a lot of us from the neighborhood see it, Mike is like the prophet of the projects,” said Darrel Wilds, 50, who grew up with Mr. Williams in Vanderveer. “He’s representing the people of this neighborhood to the world.”

Michael K. Williams Is More Than Omar From ‘The Wire’ (Published 2017)

Mr. Williams has made a career of bringing nuance and contrast to his roles, inspired by the swaggering characters he grew up with in East Flatbush.

www.nytimes.com

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and that's that on that

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All we seem to talk about on this here app is respect and giving flowers while we still can. Here is my garden for a legend, who managed so much despite the color of her skin, the locs on her head and her foot in her mouth: my hero, Whoopi Goldberg.

Whoopi Goldberg Will Not Shut Up, Thank You Very Much (Published 2022)

No matter how often she gets into trouble, she refuses to hold anything back.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

For @NYTmag 's The Lives They Lived issue, I interviewed Fran Lebowitz and Sonia Sanchez about their best friend, Toni Morrison.

Toni Morrison, the Titan of Literature (Published 2019)

Her friends recall a woman who was as fun as she was brilliant.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

actually i think it's creepy when people *don't* do a deep google dive on a new crush upon meeting theem

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4 years

what it feels like to read Twitter this evening

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the @nytimes could not run w/o freelancers, whose work is as rigorous and vital as what’s produced from staff. conflating these categories when it suits the company (reputationally) but maintaining their diff when it suits the worker (benefits/stability) is bad labor practice

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@jamiekeiles

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if the work of @nytimes freelancers is indistinguishable from the work of employees and these workers are being held to the same standards as employees it seems like a potential @nyguild misclassification concern

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New Yorkers! Every Friday morning, Bill de Blasio participates in the “Ask The Mayor” segment on @BrianLehrer . You can call in and ask him anything you want! Anything!

The Brian Lehrer Show | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News

Brian Lehrer leads the conversation about what matters most now in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives.

www.wnyc.org

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4 years

feel overwhelming urge to make a real normie twitter bio. "reporter for @nytimes and @NYTmag , @Awl alum, coffee drinker. 🏳️‍🌈 new haven then, brooklyn now + forever. tips to first dot last at nytimes. header by @cher . RT ≠ endorsements. should we split fries?" but i am resisting.

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if you're a racist trolling me for being black don't forget that i'm gay too let's get creative

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as if it weren’t already hard enough to be a black employee of the New York Times

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3 years

Andrew Yang has officially conceded

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3 years

every time i don't have a draft for my editor, i do have some gossip, and THAT is the only thing holding my career together

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5 years

More #1619project coming yr way: the special newspaper section asks why schools teach slavery so inadequately. Here's an attempt to fix that: a brief – albeit realistic – history of American slavery, on the 400 yr anniv of its start. By Mary Elliott and me

A Brief History of Slavery That You Didn't Learn in School (Published 2019)

A child's shackles, a West African legacy, a black sergeant in the Union Army — these are stories you need to hear.

www.nytimes.com

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8 years

Hallie is freaking out rn

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5 years

After years of avoiding it I now LOVE following my little sisters on twitter because all of their tweets are all like “turns out EVERY SINGLE MAN is UNTRUSTWORTHY, wow” and “did you know the GOVERNMENT is BAD?” my radical queens

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In 2020, when race was happening, the NYT granted Juneteenth as a holiday for all employees. 2 years later, only non-union employees can take it — a union busting tactic designed to scare @NYTGuildTech before they vote. What happened to recognizing the significance of the day?

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4 years

Thought skateboarding would be a good way to meet girls (wrong) but it is effective as an male deterrent! Got hit on by a man while skating, explained I was a lesbian “hence the skateboard” (a stereotype I made up) and he immediately understood and wished me luck with the ladies!

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ME: and honestly, like judge judy told me, just because someone had a rough upbringing doesn't mean they get to act out because of it!! i won't accept this behavior anymore!! MY THERAPIST: exactly! MY THERAPIST: wait WHO said that to you

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7 years

If you are looking for small, productive things to do: you can donate to Planned Parenthood.

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7 years

The casting agents of Dancing with the Stars are losing their minds right now

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4 years

This divide is one that is hugely influenced by an increasingly diverse staff. Ideologies change when people do. She says "wokes," I say "people of color," we mean the same thing

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@bariweiss

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The civil war inside The New York Times between the (mostly young) wokes the (mostly 40+) liberals is the same one raging inside other publications and companies across the country. The dynamic is always the same. (Thread.)

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8 years

White dudes who go jogging after 11 PM are just bragging.

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5 months

the NYT receives any external criticism from employees as not just treasonous but as bullying, thus flattening critique of the most influential newspaper in the Western world – by the people who make it – into "being mean to yr coworkers." internal criticism goes nowhere. bleak!

Soraya Shockley

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When I worked @nytimes , speaking up abt biased coverage of Palestine was always met w/ repression. So often, the call was coming from inside the 🏠 To b a journalist & then abdicate our responsibility to accountability to save our jobs while ppl r dying is to me unconscionable🧵

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i'm HERE i'm QUEER please help me

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Do you have to be "woke" to run a teen magazine? I wrote a profile of Elaine Welteroth, of Teen Vogue, for @NYTmag .

Elaine Welteroth, Teen Vogue’s Refashionista (Published 2017)

The editor in chief has taken on a seemingly impossible task: reinventing the glossy magazine for a hyperempathetic generation.

www.nytimes.com

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. @marknoble in the industry we call that "a masthead"

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8 years

vine is black history

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@emilynussbaum I still cite all the lines from Queen of Jordan

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3 years

this is the most scorpio shit i've ever seen

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5 years

Thinking about the summer I was sick of giving boys my number.......... my line was, “my name is jazmine, like the princess, and I work at the New York Times. If you want to see me again you will find me.” No one ever did! But anyway

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4 years

Feels rather bizarre to be promoting our Voyages issue right now, but this is less about going on vacation and more about a voyage.... to the self... (particularly the part of you that accepts that you’re probably a lesbian).

Learning to Swim Taught Me More Than I Bargained for (Published 2020)

At 28, I thought my life was pretty settled. Nope.

www.nytimes.com

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I burped in my sis room & she said I was breaking rules. Thought she was jokin TIL SHE ACTUALLY PULLED OUT SOME RULES http://t.co/9x7zfp5bEw

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I wrote about a monument to black history, hip-hop’s Library of Congress, a Schoolhouse Rock! episode of a man, the “soul whisperer” himself — @questlove .

The Passion of Questlove (Published 2021)

The drummer, D.J. and producer is everywhere and loved by everyone. But few understand what drives him: an obsession with spreading the joys of Black music.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

today was pride

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5 years

Yo I just saw a woman lift her whole tit so a dude could get by her on a crowded subway car. NYC baby

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Don’t you love going to an NYC apartment with, like, ONE working amenity — like their buzzer works or they have a garbage disposal — and thinking of your friend, ‘oh, you’re RICH rich”

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30 rock knew all along http://t.co/EiGLDyhzbh

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4 years

A black person finally got coronavirus

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@camillard the way i was eyeing the boys at the skate park in quarantine season 1..... shameful

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girls don't dress for boys they dress to impress their therapists

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It took watching Abbott Elementary as an adult to fully understand why I watched so much Moesha as a child and that’s that on that

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3 years

Absolutely obsessed with all the people in my mentions who are like “if you wanted to profile a black gay man why not James Baldwin”

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4 years

About a week ago, a good friend of mine told me he generally consumes 4-6 eggs every night before bed! Haven’t been able to think about much else. Did I miss anything?

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A year ago, Barbara Massey-Mapps’ sister, Kat, was murdered by a white supremacist in a Buffalo grocery store. If the state doesn’t kill him — the shooter faces the death penalty — she wants to. I wrote about black rage:

A Year After Buffalo: ‘There’s No Forgiveness for That. Ever.’

Court hearings, media scrums, ruined holidays — Barbara Massey-Mapps suffered through it all to see the white supremacist who killed her sister convicted.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

@Olivianuzzi girl i need you to delete this

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i profiled Julianne Moore for @TheCut ! lucky me

Julianne Moore’s Dangerous Housewives

The actress doesn’t believe it’s possible to know yourself. That’s why her best characters are searching for an answer.

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Your Instagram drama is because your partner saw you hanging out with an ex, my Instagram drama is that my hair stylist saw that somebody else did my hair, we are not the same

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co-star is a terrorist organization

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would give anything to “work the room” at a party right now

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the first tenet of writing

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@KaraRBrown Maroon 5’s “Songs About Jane” I will hear more further arguments

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Kim Kardashian is a perfect person. CAN SHE LIVE http://t.co/q2ZP30Y8Lv

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4 years

forever surprised that my best business idea — “is this flirting?” a service that analyzes an interaction and gives you read on whether or not it’s flirting — hasn’t been snapped up!

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8 years

This is the worst SNL cold open ever

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5 years

"What Toni has done with her literature is that she has made us look up and see ourselves. She has authenticated us, and she has also said to America, in a sense, ‘Do you know what you did? But, in spite of what you did, here we is. We exist. Look at us.’”

Toni Morrison and the Ghosts in the House

From 2003: As an editor, author, and professor, Morrison has fostered a generation of black writers.

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I wrote about needing to look the same -- and enrolling in the YouTube School of Braidology to do so -- during self-isolation.

When the World Unravels, Braid Your Own Hair (Published 2020)

I’ve worn my hair in the same exact style for six years. Learning to style it myself has brought some comfort of normalcy.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

These letters are from Operation Santa, a USPS program that helps people out over the holidays. I adopt letters every year and will be raising money for it soon (Venmo me: jazminerules) but highly recommend adopting your own:

Hilary Agro 🍄

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I am in shambles. We live in the cruelest society

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have mildly choked on two food items (kale, a cherry) over two days, alone in my apartment, and now suddenly all my commitment issues have vanished

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7 years

The six love languages: 1. Physical touch 2. Words of affection 3. Quality time 4. Acts of service 5. Giving gifts 6. Sending good memes

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4 years

A man asked me if he could tell me something on camera and film my reaction for a class project. I assumed it was going to be shocking, but he just told me I was beautiful (information I already have). Corny.

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7 years

After a breakup, my ex-bf (smart, wise) ran a marathon. I (insane)… bought 26 plants. I highly recommend it.

Letter of Recommendation: Pothos (Published 2017)

A forgiving houseplant, perfect for the irresponsible novice.

www.nytimes.com

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3 years

having a real movie montage moment -- squeezed in a quick workout (spin class) before drinks with the girls while fielding slack msgs from my boss and texts from my beau (works in tech, the finance industry of the modern day romcom) about vacation. maybe next i'll get bangs

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HI I'm leaving the Hairpin to help edit the New York Times magazine (hereafter called the Swagazine). I am very happysadexcitedsweatyhungry!

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