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I once had to dress up as [fast food chain] Supermac’s bunny during a St Patrick’s Day parade and shake people’s hands. Kids kept trying to take off my gloves and punching my bunny head. It was awful.
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View profile →Oversharing. I long to be intimately connected to people and sometimes, among strangers, I don’t read the room.
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