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Time To Pretend

(EDIT: im making this free but this is an example of essays that will be behind a paywall)

In 2007 my roommate showed me the music video for “Time To Pretend” by MGMT on YouTube. It made me catastrophically depressed. At the time I had just “secretly” married my line cook boyfriend, Danny, and I was working the graveyard shift as a server …

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