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We Don't Know Everything About Everything Just Because We Read the Internet a Lot

We Don't Know Everything About Everything Just Because We Read the Internet a Lot

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Emily Farris
Oct 12, 2023
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I’ve ignored most of what my mom (and Thumper) tried to impart upon me, including but certainly not limited to, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” 

Fuck nice. I’ll take kind and fair and just over nice any day.

But I do feel as if I’ve made it as far as I have by living by my own version of the above mantra, and that is, …

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