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It’s about hating yourself the way you should probably hate other people and loving other people the way you should probably love yourself. It’s about Princess Diana doppelgangers and crucified Oasis brothers and the eternal hunt for Colin Farrell. It’s about old bisexuals and digital dating and avoidant Englishmen and unemployed girls with borderline and alcoholism and writing and theater and sex-work-esque relationships. It’s sad and sexy and irreverently funny. GO TO MY INSTAGRAM IN BIO FOR MORE INFO AND LINK TO BUY! THANK YOU!

@myvapeisdying

Feb 7, 2025

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