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Jul 11Liked by G. Marie

this is American Derry Girls to me

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oh my gosh

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This is the highest praise anyone could give me!!

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The grip that the John Pauls had on our community should be studied!! And they all shortened them to JP or JB or JD until the debutants of western PA were navigating acronyms like government employees. Strange phenomenon.

And as a many time veteran of the steubie youth conferences, really got a kick out of remembering that the talks were ONLY ever about sex. I once was given a huge sticker that said "virginity is cool!" (Later sold to my college-aged brother for $20.) My last year, I got in trouble for asking a speaker about gay people in a general sense. Punk lives on, even if only accidentally.

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Faith the line about debutants and government employees sent me😭

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Would read your comic memoir <3

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Jul 11Liked by G. Marie

i had forgotten that 2000s tiered skirts existed

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I had so many!!

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Jul 9Liked by G. Marie

Is it okay that I read this despite not being on a train?

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Yes although it was SENSATIONAL!

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Really bummed I can't react to this with a train emoji or some such

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Jul 9Liked by G. Marie

Lots of respectable people been hit by trains. Judge Hobbie over in Cookeville was hit by a train.

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Jul 10Liked by G. Marie

Bam. Nothin' left but a grease spot on the LNN.

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Jul 9Liked by G. Marie

The photo is a true representation of your "dancing."

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Doing violence with the scare quotes here!! Thanks for driving us!

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