Thank you for your thoughtful and beautifully written response! This is helpful and I still have quite a bit of thinking to do myself.

This feels like a safe space to share that I almost (!) bought Casamigos tequila. Fortunately my roommate talked me down to a $30 brand (Casamigos was 50) and was still horrified I wanted to spend that much on an alcohol I barely drink.

I know, but I think I trust Idris Elba enough to watch at least the first two episodes! We’ll see.

That doesn’t look like Sarah Hyland at all and I can’t figure out why?? Help me Kezzies what is different?

I’ve heard that about Lamar too, but I think she really did want to have kids even if she realized that it shouldn’t be with Lamar. So potato potahto kind of?

Fully speculating here, but I wonder if after everything Khloe went through to try to have a baby with Lamar she kind of just said fuck it I’ll do this myself? I mean she’s watched Kourtney go Thru It with Scott so maybe single parenting with eyes open was what she was aiming for. Can’t hurt to pick a sperm donor with…

Some people say that you shouldn’t write a memoir at age 23 and then another one every 5 years after that, but I say why NOT treat your life story like the Sweet Valley High series??

I would like to bring to everyone’s attention that this is TT’s SECOND memoir. He wrote his first at the tender age of 23, and I tried to read it because at the tender age of 17ish I thought he was so hot.

BIG IF TRUE !!

Oh my god. Oh my god!

Yeah. When I was in college, a guy in my class told me (to my face) that I got a job offer we had both interviewed for because “they were looking for girls.”

Oh, I see. I guess that’s assuming their privacy/sharing settings are more transparent than, say, Facebook’s.

Wait, WHAT? So the doctor at some point previously also took an ancestry.com test, didn’t have his profile set to “private”, and then this woman came along and did a test and it NAMED him as her father?

Oh, I feel this so much. If you don’t mind my asking, how did you decide it was time to come out to your parents? I’m in my early 20s and am trying to figure this out for myself.

STOP I refuse to believe this is real

Not lost in the greys, thank you! I did already have a colposcopy and my doctor took four samples for biopsy. She did mention that most women my age clear the HPV infection on their own. Good luck with the rest of your training!

Coming back this morning to say THANK YOU to all of you wonderful humans. I am feeling a lot more calm and ready for whatever this week might bring to me.

Thanks. My nervous energy mostly wants to lie on the couch and eat Oreos but I have a goal to go for a walk tomorrow!

Thanks, I feel you on the poking/prodding. My gynecologist is wonderful but it hasn’t been a fun week to have a body.

Of course. Having an alternate narrative does help to squelch the part of my brain that’s googling cervical cancer every few hours, though.