My first wife, because I left her.
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View all 209 →To the Scissor Sisters. Back in the day, I could be an absolute monster; I was a real asshole.
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
To anyone I’ve worked with between 5.30am and 8.30am. I am not a morning person.
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View profile →Last Tuesday, lying on the couch, watching Schitt’s Creek with my husband. Happiness is the small, ordinary days, not the big, up-in-lights ones.
Not having had children.
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