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But Do I Need It? - by Phoebe Maltz Bovy - Freddie deBoer

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a shopping post

airing some (clean) laundry If you find yourself in a city with some free time, what do you gravitate to? Restaurants, museums, performances, opium dens, really anything is less shameful than admitting that you would go look at, maybe try on, maybe even purchase, some new outfits or accessories. What sort of a vapid, consumerist sheep would do that? This sort. I always need to be clear, when I say I like clothes-shopping, what I mean, since it summons an image of Carrie Bradshaw toppling over in her stilettos from the sheer weight of her shopping bags. That’s not me. I do not find it…

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