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If he’s Taylor Adam Smith, why would his business cards read Taylor M. Swift?

No, there was definitely boarding school. But there was also the well-off parents, no formative years spent in a trailer park, etc. Put it this way, she did not rank as an excessive partier in the world of rich kids at boarding school.

I mean, artsy/musical. Smart. She wanted to be a superstar singer and...well, after some years slogging it out on the circuit in New York, you know what happened next! The backstory is totally fake, but the drive to reinvent in order to capture the imagination of others is very real.

Please. A marketing triumph. Knew her in high school/early 20s. Extreme sexual magnetism, but took a long time to upgrade her face to match.

Ava, Ava, Ava. So fiery. So fierce. So ALIVE.

Obviously this man is a hideous beast, but I am looking forward to the Lifetime movie. What a knack for DRAMA.

Nah, that’s wisdom that is traditionally applied to print; it’s different in digital. Friday midday is EXACTLY when everyone is ready for the weekend and ready to go fuck off and read something long and complicated online rather than doing work, because it’s too early for them to actually leave their desk. What you’re…

No—I have never been! From what I understand of seabirds, they are generally pretty gamey and oily and salty, so I expect they are actually not. I will take a bite of most anything in this world, but for me that falls more in the “will try if offered, but will not seek out” range.

Oh I mean like, obviously I would go to the hot springs. It’s pretty much mandatory, right? I don’t know, I travel alone a lot so that’s not really how I think about travel. I find it’s much more helpful to have a list of smaller, more mundane missions in my pocket. Like, if all you wanted to do in Paris was see the…

And crazy lagoons and elves and beautiful drunk people and endless day and endless night? WHAT IS MORE FUN? Let’s book it.

This had wonderful shades of Sedaris and I enjoyed it very much. I now have another thing to add to my Iceland bucket list, after petting a small pony and trying all the weird hot dog stands.

Right? What’s all the hate for DeNiro? Who is more hyperbolic and full of themselves than Silicon Valley founders?

Mm. Yep. There is the very obvious rejoinder to my navel-gazing statement. Oh well. That’s a strange little-kid thing of mine that I’m always surprised continues to manifest—that assumption that whatever is going on in your family is what all families are like. I know intellectually it’s not true, but it’s still a…

My family was big on books, and we always had age-appropriate material my mom would leave in our rooms. I also had a brother, who like most little boys was pretty fascinated with his penis, so I could not help but be aware that they existed. My parents also had sex kind of...often (I was a bad sleeper, and wandered…

No apology needed! That seems to be the general consensus. Every one of my peers who was begging me to meet someone when they were all getting engaged are now, as new parents, firmly on the side of “don’t rush.” And seeing how hard it is even with the right person, I am not at all interested in trying it with someone…

Hahah, oh, so true. I went to women’s college, which was extremely formative for me in how I learned to form friendships. As a straight woman where our default environment was without men, we were given both a lot of opportunities to really be ourselves and discover our commonalities across a huge range of…

This is so well-put. I do think jealousy and competition is, in one sense, inevitable, simply because it’s human. But once you learn to process those emotions, it doesn’t AT ALL have to be the defining characteristic of your relationships with other women.

Thank you! It’s been nice hearing from other people that got it, I was afraid I had somehow done something horrible without realizing.

Correct :) Sorry, in that case, if you are not new to spin generally then none of it will be new to you. Near as I can tell their main point of difference is the (admittedly awesome) grapefruit candles, since a lot of the things that initially made them different have been wholly adopted by their competitors. I’ve…