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How was her tone in any way opaque? No one uses “good ole boys club” in a positive way. I know enough women veterans to realize that you get desensitized to sexual harassment in the army. Not in a way that makes you unsympathetic to victims, but in a way where your tone is casual/defeated/empty when talking about that…

I’ll never miss the rent, but I had some great years living between Inman, Davis, and Union.

No messiness to report, but I have got some pretty good airline tickets by flying on July 4.

Honored to make the list. Yes, a very tame vacation disaster, but also hell. 

Yeah Portland real estate—and the tax hikes—are kind of brutal. But we keep an eye out semi-regularly for jobs in Maine, mostly as a daydream, and my husband could only find work in Portland.

Genius.

Maybe it just depends on your community! Someone I know moved to Maine when she was 5 or 6 and never got over the “stigma” of being from out-of-state. 

As a sell out, I have to admit I preferred these songs to Eilish’s.

They were married and divorced in 2017. They have both since remarried.

Maybe she doesn’t speak Mainelish fluently.

Well, yes, but you don’t get the whole chunk of your lottery winnings free and clear! I think they take 25% off the top and you have to pay taxes on the rest with the rest of your income when you file. I’m just skeptical that a whole addition (on top of “tuition”??) is possible! But money is different in Maine.

First of all, one hundred percent here for Maineweek madness.

It’s the BEST! I wish there were more that are structured, but I can manage my two-bra rotation!

Not an expert, but I can see why some people would be tempted to settle for 2 million each in a pandemic. I feel like his lawyers took advantage of the global crisis, which is about what I would expect from anyone associated with Weinstein.

My favorite bras are structured bralettes. As in, the cups are made of this stiff soft material. I have two, one from Athleta and one from VS, and I love them both. My boobs just plop out of regular bralettes, but with these two particular bras, they retain their boob shape and provide a nipple cocoon. They don’t lift…

Her stage persona has changed, but the woman beneath it has not. Anne Helen Peterson did a good job debunking the idea that Stefani has changed a couple years ago. The whole article is great, I’ll just excerpt a little here:

I think most people are “almost edgy” in their 20s but, in fairness to Nicole, she married kind of early, adopted some children, and always seemed to crave a family life. I don’t think she performed a turnabout comparable to Gwen Stefani by marrying that country singer.

Iconic.

My mom and dad thought it would be fun to schedule our time in Old Forge for a couple nights and then “wing it” the final two nights. Except that it was August, in the Adirondacks, and we were three tweens in a minivan with air conditioning that didn’t work, and we kept driving up to hotels with “No Vacancy” signs on…