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#135: Anti Anti Social Social Club - by Haley Nahman

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Make socializing cool again

A little-known fact about the essay I published on January 1st about trying to have a kid is that I broke my living room window while writing it. I was lying laterally on my couch, a single outstretched foot resting on the window right above it, when I applied light pressure, and then a little more, and then there was a shocking snap and the window was in pieces. I cleaned up the glass in a guilty hurry, refusing to consider whether this was a metaphor, then called a guy to come fix it. His name was Bernie. He arrived around 7 the next morning in a bright yellow van with his name on it. I…

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