Someone to clean my apartment.
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A sustainable future for all. I could finally stop worrying.
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Deciding what I wanted to do at 15 and, against all odds, doing it.
Anyone I slept with before the age of 27, because I was a selfish, cold-ass bitch.
A page from Jim Morrison’s final notebook – I bought it as a birthday gift for a friend.
Heady, dizzying, magical. Time stops.
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