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I thought after I had my own place, I'd finally have girls in my bed, the kind that read in coffee shops. But after too many failed apartment getaways and 2,346 miles of stories that could brim a hundred journals, I'm in my old room with the same songs and the same parents, with the same questions about the same girlfriends who have new boyfriends with new cars, more money, more testosterone. But they won’t walk out of a job with both middle fingers in the air, towards the road. It won’t even enter their minds.
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM UTC
To Elena (Who Serves Tables in Atlanta)
I thought after I had my own place, I'd finally have girls in my bed, the kind that read in coffee shops. But after too many failed apartment getaways and 2,346 miles of stories that could brim a hundred journals, I'm in my old room with the same songs and the same parents, with the same questions about the same girlfriends who have new boyfriends with new cars, more money, more testosterone. But they won’t walk out of a job with both middle fingers in the air, towards the road. It won’t even enter their minds.
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Dec 7, 2014
Dec 7, 2014 at 3:13 PM UTC
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