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on my first boyfriend

your best american girl by Rona W. '23 on my first boyfriend August 13, 2022 in People & Identities Last month, my friends and I saw Mitski live. I didn’t know that many Mitski songs, but I went to her concert anyway because the songs I did know made me certain that everything that happened inside of me had happened inside of someone else before. At the entrance of the venue, a woman who was checking IDs glanced at me and said, “You’re definitely under twenty-one, right?” I laughed her off because I wasn’t planning on drinking anyway. She drew an X on the back of

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