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That Paris Review article is what I have been waiting to read for like 10 years. Thank you. <3

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I found myself smiling at the Facebook poking someone sitting a few seats away from you in the library anecdote - honest to god good times!

I'm glad to have had that experience of the internet - those fun 2008ish days when the internet was a laff and not awful and even scary. Remember how much fun everyone would have sending around Youtube videos of like some weird American news segment remixed, and then everyone quoting/singing them all the time? Is this how everyone feels when they start to get old?! Nostalgic for things that, if you said it to a young person now, they'd be like ... and how was that fun ..

I don't know - I do think, though, that that combination of college + early Youtube / Facebook had a special innocence that's long gone.

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Loved this newsletter and the Paris Review link is... fascinating. Relatable.

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