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Big. Funny. Man.
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Funny Irish woman.
Loyal, funny, driven.
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The internet going down – but not just for me, for everyone.
Like becoming warm after you’ve been cold.
It used to be loneliness, and it might still be.
As someone who was kind.
I don’t know, and I’m completely OK with not knowing.
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