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Jan 21 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
You bring up high school in a routine conversation after age 35 and I zone out. 🤷🏾‍♀️
And god help me if you bring it up FREQUENTLY to explain who you are today, as an adult. It just means we have little in common. Great if it works for your peer group. It doesn’t work for mine
Because as you start going on about how Billy pushing you in the 10th grade made you skittish around water fountains, I have nothing to respond with. I have no idea what happened in the 10th grade. None. Those aren’t my formative years.
You want to talk formative experiences? Fine. But a rundown of high school and your highlights? At this big age? In the era of prestige television? IN THIS ECONOMY? Nah, B.

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Jan 21
It's become a real screenwriting crutch, like a skull on a bookcase to indicate someone is "smart" in a particular "you're going to hate them" kind of way. It's lazy.

I know I had a good score because I got a full ride. And I couldn't tell you that score if you paid me.
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Jan 18
Between us I’m actually kind of proud of how hard ideologues & professional contrarians have to work to make me seem unreasonable. Every day I get some news hit or comment that amounts to, “OMG YOU SAID SOMETIMES A THING THAT HAPPENS, HAPPENS.” And you know, that’s a skill.
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Jan 15
Lou Diamond Phillips has been fine for 40 years.
Apparently, I do this.
Definitely a trend.
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Jan 12
What century are you tweeting this from?
Be a puritan if you want but in what universe is “fuck you” usually a violent threat 🙄
I really can not do precious adults. Pet peeve.
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Jan 6
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My friend's life was ruined* by a Magnolia Network Home Makeover.

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If you live somewhere REALLY exotic like one of the Dakotas, that is great 😂

They need this lesson because I still cannot really tell you which one is New Hampshire and look at how horribly I turned out.
I spotted him at @epiloguebooksch with a book bag and a churro :)
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