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“I have freakishly good eyesight. I can read signs at 35+ feet away. I didn’t realize how special that was until I had kids. One can see 20/20, but I can see way farther than him, easily. It’s not even close!”
“I also have always had clear skin. No acne as a teen! At 46, most people think I’m 30. When I was younger, it was annoying that I always…
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“I have no reaction to mosquito bites or poison ivy. No clue why.”
“Also, I’m genetically resistant to Norovirus, which would explain why literally everyone in my college dorm got it but me. I’m pretty sure my mom is too, as she was a…
I Voted For Trump In 2016. When He Won, I Was Shocked By How Brutally My Life Changed Overnight.
June 20, 2025
Recently, my only Asian American friend from high school shared that her prevailing memory of me was that I hated being Chinese and wished I was white. She remembers me saying this over and over again. I had always felt the categorical otherness of being Chinese in a town…
In 2021, I moved into my first ever “grown-up” apartment in New York City. Over the course of my move-in day, I had finished a small pint of Absolut vodka — a couple of swigs in the morning before the movers came (because obvi, celebration!), a few during, and the rest…
