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I got a perfect score on my SAT and all I got was this lousy feeling of never being enough
The first essay for Season One!! A big deal frankly! critics are calling it a "wow" and "oh right I forgot about this, looks cool" // S1E1
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i used to play poker, now i play social media
"Raise," I say, splashing the pot with six $0.50 green chips like I’m Matt fuckin Damon in the classic film Rounders, “three bucks.” // S1E9
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forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing
a new holiday
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Beautiful Disasters
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hello, i love you, won't you pick up your phone???
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What does your stupid art even do for the world?
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i think my son hates me
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forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing
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family

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I was born in Odessa Ukraine
How it feels when your homeland is attacked
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My parents, my child and me: what could go wrong?
A brief chronicle of a brief visit during the Dobrenko Cold War
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hello, i love you, won't you pick up your phone???
seriously haven't heard from you in seven minutes please pick up we're worried about you not a joke please answer now hello?
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just for f*cks

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6666 tips on how I reached 6666 subscribers on Substack
ok i haven't gotten there yet but I will soon you gotta believe me i'm 5 away but my son is crying so i gotta get him up even tho he refuses to…
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A fool rushes in -- my future according to tarot
The results of an epic tarot reading with Caroline Cala Donofrio of Between A Rock and a Card Place (I wanted to call it Only Fools Russian but I didn't…
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what if we didn't need the answers???
The life changing magic of living the question -- Marie Kondo could never
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story time

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YAMA/MAYA

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help wanted

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season one: I'm (not??) the best

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Both Are True
Both Are True
Absurd, honest comedy delivered twice a weekish through the vulnerable personal essays of Alex Dobrenko: tv actor+writer to some, father to one, and friend to all.
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