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“What we desire and what we have lost. Are they not always the same?” - Laura Purcell, Bone China Call and You Shall Receive +1 (***) *** - 6750 | A Live-In Confidante | 1 month, 3 days ago  8:20 AM Outgoing Call 18 seconds Are you leaving the dorm yet? Can I borrow your God hoodie? The purple one. Yeah, it says, “He is For You, He is With You.” I think I lost mine. Great, yeah, thank you. I’ll meet you in class. Just running late ‘cause I can’t find God anywhere. Sorry, God hoodie. Bring my Dunkin, okay?  +1 (***) *** -9093 | Ryan | 9 months, 26 days ago 8:25 PM Outgoing Call 45 seconds I placed an Amazon order. Can you approve it? Yes, I mean, I technically need both types of mascara. Yes, Dad, there’s a difference. It looks better, okay? Jesus, you ask this every time. Just approve it please.  8:26 PM Outgoing Call 9 minutes Sorry, that was rude. How was your day?  I think to myself that in a minute, I’ll need to hang up and call back because good things ca...

“All the world began with a yes.” - Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star M ore than six years ago, sometime in early 2020, I began a blog out of sheer pandemic boredom. I was freshly eleven, insufferably pretentious for my age, and totally impassioned with a zeal for Social Justice©. Most posts are now archived, but you can see my former page, Tina’s Typical Tuesdays , here .  Despite its admittedly corny start, I remain proud of that endeavour. It was consistent and unburdened by the thought of readership numbers or critical reception or social cringe in the way that all pandemic-era digital content was (seriously, let’s talk about those same-person P.O.V TikToks—if you know, you know). This sort of freedom, combined with the boldness of an eleven-year-old not yet chastened by that thing called Rejection, was a lethal combo. So there I was, writing feminist think pieces and advocating for brazen gun control. Don’t get me wrong—I still believe in all of those things. But my last...