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some kind of good luck charm
an autofiction piece on old friends and the ache of nostalgia
Mar 12, 2025
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how difficult is it to be a good person?
on casual bigotry and the regression of kindness culture
Dec 14, 2024
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your twenties are a second chance at teenagehood
some comforting sentiments around aging
Apr 15, 2024
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when you've outgrown a lover
an autofiction piece about first loves and bad timing
Feb 18, 2025
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anyway, don't be a stranger
on falling out and letting people leave your life as easily as they walked into it
Nov 25, 2024
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your twenties are a second chance at teenagehood
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anyway, don't be a stranger
Nov 25, 2024
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the most fun a girl can have is accepting the past and moving forward
Apr 9, 2024
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when you've outgrown a lover
Feb 18, 2025
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you have to do it now
the perfect time doesn't exist
Jul 31, 2025
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is friendship sacred to you?
on learning to be more intentional toward my friendships in my twenties
Jun 19, 2025
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we were never going to look seventeen forever
on bodies changing and the endless cycle of self-criticism
May 31, 2025
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i wish i could live through something
on the scariest week of my life that happened a couple weeks ago
May 25, 2025
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when the waiting never ends
a product of late-night anxiety ramblings; you know the drill
Apr 22, 2025
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no one's keeping score
on getting older, wasted potential, and comparing versions of yourself to one another (also it's my birthday)
Mar 5, 2025
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a writer who's not writing
on surviving the slow, silent killer that is writer's block
Feb 16, 2025
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everything is embarrassing
on trying and failing (and trying again, despite it all)
Jan 30, 2025
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i don't understand, i thought you liked me!
on the intrinsic need to be universally liked, but accepting the fact that not everyone will
Jan 25, 2025
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dead birds and all
i'm choosing not to take it as an omen
Jan 23, 2025
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loss or liberation?
on anti-intellectualism in music and art in light of the tiktok ban
Jan 18, 2025
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in defense of the bildungsroman
a love letter to coming-of-age stories
Jan 16, 2025
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you have to do it now
the perfect time doesn't exist
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is friendship sacred to you?
on learning to be more intentional toward my friendships in my twenties
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506
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we were never going to look seventeen forever
on bodies changing and the endless cycle of self-criticism
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conversations that change everything and nothing
some kind of good luck charm, part II. autofiction piece about old friends and almosts.
May 26, 2025
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i wish i could live through something
on the scariest week of my life that happened a couple weeks ago
May 25, 2025
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