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Connie Schultz's avatar

I love this essay.

And thank you for making me laugh out loud here: “…dating a rather older gentleman (so, like, in his thirties?): an artist of no particular talent or, as it turned out, personal integrity. Which of course means: He was good-looking. My usual downfall.”

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Chelsea Hopkins's avatar

I love footnote 3, and hellscape that it was (and I’m sure continues to be), Twitter did make several lasting contributions to the—what would we call it? syntax?—of written humor. I find the period-question to be especially useful for expressing the particular brand of humorous dismay that is *everything toddlers do* to my various parent group texts. “What in the ever-loving hell is this.” And a photo. We know what it is. It doesn’t matter what it is. It is Toddler. And the period says it all.

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