crushes are often just misplaced ambition - by Isabel

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crushes are often just misplaced ambition what the people we're drawn to tell us about ourselves Isabel Jun 07, 2022 1,055 34 189 Share Manhattan at sunset on film, November 2021 There's this notion I came across in one of Ava's essays that every crush is just misplaced ambition. She said that the line came from Heather Havrilesky's advice column called Ask Polly . I loved the line so much that I tried to dig through the Ask Polly columns to find where it came from. I couldn't find it. But I found a lot of similar, related advice in Ask Polly that got me thinking a lot about where crushes come

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