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I stole a traffic cone last summer it sits in my bedroom next to a mason jar with 25 dollars worth of change in it more or less and a hundred dollar bottle of perfume I own 8 vintage cameras and only 3 of them work I woke up yesterday at 12:45pm and I ate 6 girl scout cookies for breakfast the windowsill next to my bed holds a candle that I will probably never burn a book that I haven’t finished a half empty box of condoms and a roll of electrical tape because all of my chargers are broken today I fried chicken in a pan and I ate it with noodles and canned alfredo sauce and I felt accomplished today my sister called me to ask what she should wear on a date where a man cooks her dinner at his apartment I told her to wear jeans a blouse but I don’t know what one wears in that situation because I’ve never been in that situation and then I hung up and watched 2 more hours of netflix alone tomorrow I will call my mother while I walk back to my car from poetry class even though I don’t have any news to tell her and when I hang up I will wonder if she notices that I call her every Monday and Wednesday around 10:30am tomorrow at 3 o clock my phone will remind me to take my medicine and I will take 75mg of Effexor and I will drink a full glass of water because I am afraid of getting a pill stuck in my esophagus tomorrow night I will lay in bed and I will have a brief anxiety attack about getting older and then I will fall asleep and have scary dreams about more insignificant things
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM UTC
On Being Twenty
I stole a traffic cone last summer it sits in my bedroom next to a mason jar with 25 dollars worth of change in it more or less and a hundred dollar bottle of perfume I own 8 vintage cameras and only 3 of them work I woke up yesterday at 12:45pm and I ate 6 girl scout cookies for breakfast the windowsill next to my bed holds a candle that I will probably never burn a book that I haven’t finished a half empty box of condoms and a roll of electrical tape because all of my chargers are broken today I fried chicken in a pan and I ate it with noodles and canned alfredo sauce and I felt accomplished today my sister called me to ask what she should wear on a date where a man cooks her dinner at his apartment I told her to wear jeans a blouse but I don’t know what one wears in that situation because I’ve never been in that situation and then I hung up and watched 2 more hours of netflix alone tomorrow I will call my mother while I walk back to my car from poetry class even though I don’t have any news to tell her and when I hang up I will wonder if she notices that I call her every Monday and Wednesday around 10:30am tomorrow at 3 o clock my phone will remind me to take my medicine and I will take 75mg of Effexor and I will drink a full glass of water because I am afraid of getting a pill stuck in my esophagus tomorrow night I will lay in bed and I will have a brief anxiety attack about getting older and then I will fall asleep and have scary dreams about more insignificant things
mialee
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Mar 6, 2016
Mar 6, 2016 at 10:05 PM UTC
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