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Worst Boyfriend Ever and the plight of the ambitious woman

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reflecting on Aella, Jessica, and my teenage insecurities

Last week, I woke up to a new Substack follower: Worst Boyfriend Ever. I clicked into his profile. It appeared that he’d just arrived in California, spent a couple days canoodling in a cabin with another Asian girl from Substack, and was now looking for girls in SF to hook up with. I couldn’t help wondering why he’d targeted me. I mean, maybe he’s just mass-DMing every Asian girl in SF, maybe he actually likes my blog… or was there something about my Substack persona that suggested I could be attracted to him? He’s called Worst Boyfriend Ever (aka WBE), by the way, because his blog started…

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