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In my experience, confessions are pretty fuckin’ useless. Never has being on the receiving end of a confession…

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Last Friday, an unsurprising but still disturbing announcement reverberated across the internet. A jury in Minnesota…

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There’s a Toni Morrison quote I used to bristle at:

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