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@itsmyfirstname .bsky.social | It's my first name | @GooglePubPolicy via @Adecco_UK | ex Twitter 1.0 & Dublin Bus | 🏠 #Limerick | All views are my own

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Kennedy O'Brien
11 months
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4 years
Hit the like button on this Tweet for a fun (but important) surprise. #WearAMask
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2 years
I loved this company with all my heart. I was incredibly proud to work here for nearly 5 years learning from the best people but all good things come to an end. #LoveWhereYouWorked
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6 years
Whoever designed the Apple mouse and put the charging port at the bottom is a low-key evil genius.
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7 years
So far #FirstDatesIRL has highlighted ISL, aspergers, straight & gay dates, pan sexual and trans, and a waiter with down syndrome. ❤ Am I missing anything? Fair play @rte &co
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3 years
She got tired of waiting 🤷‍♂️
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3 years
Start of a new chapter... I mostly did it so @kennedy798 can add "husband to famous and attractive musician, Emma Langford" to his twitter bio, tbh But he said yes ❤️ I later ate my ring
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3 years
Hearing how Andy Farrell and the Irish players speak about CJ, and seeing how emotional he is, I hope some "sports journalists" in Ireland have a hard look at themselves for the way they have treated him. They won't, but they should. #IREvENG
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3 years
I'd love to see this building get a new lease of life 😍
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3 years
I'm ngl, I'm a tad emotional. Very proud of @ELangfordMusic , tonight and every night ❤ #LateLateShow
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4 years
She never ceases to make me proud 😍 Hon @ELangfordMusic #TommyTiernanShow
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3 years
It says a lot when Limerick is trending higher than the Late Late Show. One slight silver lining is seeing all the non-Limerick folk Tweeting about their Grá for the city. It's great to see 💚🤍
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2 years
This wouldn’t be necessary if @LimerickCouncil and @GardaTraffic did their jobs and enforced the parking rules in the city. The bus could have made the turn if there wasn’t a line of parked cars.
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5 years
Whoever built this feature for @gmail is a personal hero of mine🙌
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6 years
Have to say @ExeterChiefs supporters are possibly the best I've seen in Thomond Park! They still haven't stopped singing. #MUNvEXE #ChampionsCup
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2 months
Massive shout out to this group who kept the city, county, and country informed of everything over the past few days 🙌
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Kennedy O'Brien
10 months
@AuschwitzMuseum Have you considered joining Blue Sky? A lot of folk are leaving here, and a lot are ending up over there. Happy to give a code to you if needed.
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2 years
I'm genuinely blown away by the response from colleagues, partners, acquaintances and strangers. My timeline yesterday was filled with friends losing their jobs, but my notifications and DMs were filled with support, love, and appreciation. Thank you all, it has helped ❤️
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3 years
Is there any better way to spend an evening than listening to your fiancée knock it out of the park, in front of a sell-out, hometown gig?
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10 months
@SaffasRugby England did well but they're not the best in Europe. France, Ireland, Scotland and possibly Wales are ahead of them. One match doesn't define a team.
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3 years
I've spent the last 24 hours getting messages from wonderful people wishing us well and I don't have the right words to express my gratitude to everyone ❤ If you could bottle this feeling you'd be rich
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
For anyone interested, it's a handcrafted, Viking style, silver alloy ring, stamped with a stylised version of the Crooked Tree in Newcastle West. The tree always signified home to me
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7 years
I'm proud of our country that we've not had to issue a warning not to shoot at the hurricane. #Ophelia
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2 years
Your city could never
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2 years
Can we all just agree that hurling is the greatest sport in the world, and every other sport is just fighting for a distant second?
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9 months
"... the city is often treated as a whipping boy for urban felonies in Irish media, decades after a criminal family feud had ended" "This is a city that nurtures the performing arts.." Great article in @guardian celebrating Limerick 💚🤍
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
It can only be called an NFT it it comes from the NFT region of France, otherwise it's just called a Sparkling jpeg.
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2 years
Convinced that when I die this is what purgatory will be.
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6 years
I really must make it my business to visit this place ❤ #8thref
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
Watched this on a laptop in Norway with a room of people who had never seen rugby before. They were back the following week to watch the next game
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2 years
Not a bad auld city 💚 #Limerick
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3 years
I love this city and how fiercely people advocate for what they believe in 💚🤍 #Limerick
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5 years
One of #Ireland 's most underrated destinations. #Limerick to some, but home to me 💚
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3 years
I love this city. I have friends who are bemused and amused by how proudly I advocate for it. It's a beautiful city full of history, but it's the people who call it home that make it a special. #LimerickAndProud
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
I must say, @Twitter is looking pretty sharp at the moment 🔥 #WearAMask
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
Honestly @VirginMediaIRE could we get pundits from one of the other provinces next week? The only players criticised today are non-Leinster.
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
Look at this absolute beauty 😍 A Limerick handmade Santoku knife, made of 01 high Carbon steel with a Limerick Ash and Galway Yew handle with a blue plastic band that washed up in Farrihy Bay, Co Clare.
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
How could you do anything but love a city like this? A 13th Century castle overlooking the longest river in Ireland, with wonderful people and a burgeoning arts scene.
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3 years
Today I'm going to be unapologetically Tweeting about #Limerick 💚
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4 years
How can you do anything but love this city? 😍
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Kennedy O'Brien
6 years
Everyone stop what you are doing and listen to @Weezer 's cover of #Africa .
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2 years
Limerick being an absolute stunner today 🥰
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
I don't know many people that have a cooler job than me. And I just so happen to live with one of them. @ELangfordMusic 's office for this evening opening #LimerickMHW
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Matt LeBlanc has achieved a status on Irish Twitter that has previously only been reserved for Michael D Higgins.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Today I celebrate 3 years at Twitter. When I started I never could have imagined just how much I was going to love my job, or how much I was going to learn.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Can we just take a minute to appreciate how class Emma and co. were on the #TommyTiernanShow last night?
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
I'd happily push the button to blow this up. Horrible building and a blight on the area.
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Limerick Post
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Moves to save landmark Limerick building from demolition -
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
Sure who would want to complete the riverwalk on a sunny evening? That this continues to happen is a joke. And could somebody please paint the bridge?
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7 years
3 people dead, even when most of the country was locked up safe inside. How many more people would be dead if no red warning? #Ophelia
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 months
I've quite a few regrets in life and one of them is definitely giving up rugby for a decade. But I started back last year, and last night I got to captain our seconds for the first time 🙌
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
A couple of months ago I started in the gym. I'd never deadlifted before but with the help of a good coach today I broke the 100kg mark.
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
Hard to believe I'm 2 years at @TwitterDublin today, and harder to believe how much I've learned and experienced in that time. Forever grateful to have the opportunity to work on this incredible team. #LoveWhereYouWork
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Kennedy O'Brien
1 year
It's not every day you see your brother win a bronze medal in a world cup 🙌
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3 years
I completely forgot to mark my 4️⃣ year #Twitterversary . It has been an amazing four years. I'm incredibly grateful to all the people I've had the opportunity to learn from, and who have been so generous with their time and patience. #LoveWhereYouWork
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3 years
Watching Beibhinn Parsons play rugby almost makes me wonder if superpowers are real. #WALvIRE
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
Very proud of @ELangfordMusic with her Late Late Show debut ♥️
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
Not every day you sing in front of 4 and a half thousand people #oneteam
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
I hope @LimerickCouncil are looking at the vibrancy that giving public space back to people is bringing to the city, and that it encourages them to double down on it.
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
BRB, Googling how to write a CV. Anyone with any CV writing tips or templates please let me know, it’s been a while🙏
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
I'm not sure if @LimerickCouncil ever completed the purchase of the old Arthur's Quay Tourist Office/Chez Le Fab building. But if they did, the state they've let it fall to is genuinely disgraceful.
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
I wouldn't recommend Kerry for a holiday. Views are terrible, and the people are worse. Worst of all, no nice picnic spots.
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
If anyone is looking for a ticket to the Munster match, I've 2x East Terrace South available. They're yours if you want them, I'd just ask that you donate to @BeLonG_To or another LGBT+ org #MUNvEXE @threeredkings
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Kennedy O'Brien
6 years
Conor Murray is my player of the tournament. If he doesn't get a nomination at the very least for world player of the year it's a travesty. #ENGvIRL
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Kennedy O'Brien
7 years
When you see an article from @Limerick_Leader is second from the top on the front page of Reddit, it really shows how enormous Dolores O'Riordan was worldwide.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Not quite the way I had imagined I'd turn 30. Still no close calls with quicksand 🤷‍♂️
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Emma Langford
4 years
Happy birthday to this lad ❤️ he's class, and now he's puuuuure old
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@rugby_ap Jesus AP, there's biased and then there's this.
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
Dublin you're looking well this evening 😍
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2 months
And yet...
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Óglaigh na hÉireann
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We wish to address the conversation that is currently taking place on social media, as we are an organisation committed to honesty and transparency. Any conviction in a civilian court may have implications for the retention and service of members of the Defence Forces, as
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
When @ELangfordMusic isn't off playing the musics, you'll find her teaching willow some fun tricks. Like this one She's too precious 😭
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
There are three certainties in life — 🟢 Death ⚪️ Taxes 🟢 I'll find a way of mentioning that I'm from Limerick into work presentations💚
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Honestly, I've been critical of @LimerickCouncil a lot recently but this deserves a lot of praise.
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🔥parklet - 🔥 finished today by @LimerickCouncil
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
It's pretty cool to be listening to a radio station in Philadelphia play a clip of Janis Ian talking about Emma's cover of At Seventeen, followed by the cover 🤯
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
Tbh, I’m ok with this
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Emma Langford
2 years
I will be at the homecoming tomorrow and I will shift the entire team
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2 years
Going for the Arctic explorer look
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
The author of this article should be ashamed of himself. @Forbes , Limerick is a vibrant city, full of amazing people. That period of our history does not define us and is distant history at this.
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 months
Earlier in the week I had a bunch of camera gear stolen from my car in Limerick. In the unlikely event someone is offered the below, hit me up
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Can't remember the last time I baked a cake but she's done #ThrowbackBake A chocolate stout cake with Irish buttercream using @TreatyCityBrew and Baileys 😍 #TwitterForGood
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3 years
I KNOW HER 🙌
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
A little bit of normality today at a wedding ❤
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Emma Langford
3 years
Hangover be dammed, we're off to celebrate some friends getting hitched ❤ and we got to give a willow a cuddle
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
I've listened to a lot of #Liveline recently, and I'm always left wondering how millennials are the ones that are accused of being snowflakes
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
She's right and if you have an issue with it, you are part of the problem 👇
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The Late Late Show
3 years
“What could keep us safe is if men stopped attacking us." #LateLate
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3 years
I don't know who needs to hear this but pineapple *does* belong on pizza
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Kennedy O'Brien
7 years
The Church would be a better and more relevant place if it was full of people like Fr Brian #CuttingEdge
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Kennedy O'Brien
6 years
Honestly don't understand why people would book tickets to see the Pope with no intention of going, just so others won't be able to.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Good to be back ❤
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Some days you realise just how mentally exhausting the past 18-months have been. Ngl, today is one of those days.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
I see that today @LimerickCouncil decided that traffic is more important than public safety, and once again has ignored the majority of public consultations. 🤷‍♂️
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4 months
That did *not* feel good.
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Kennedy O'Brien
2 years
Commiserations to North Limerick. Wasn’t your day and Kilkenny were outstanding. #clarevkilkenny
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
This lovely gentleman, after nearly failing to stop at the pedestrian crossing that we were on decided to rev us as we crossed. Drivers like him shouldn't be on our roads. @LimerickCouncil these pedestrian crossings on Roches St. need speed ramps.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Hard to believe it's 6 years since I was a #RoseOfTralee escort. A lot has changed in the intervening years and I definitely don't fit in my tux anymore 🙈 A fantastic experience and I got to meet some wonderful people.
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
Children's clothing is deemed essential enough to have a 0% VAT rate, but not essential enough to be able to buy in a pandemic.
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Kennedy O'Brien
6 years
One year down and I still look forward to coming into work every morning. I'll hopefully add many more blocks to my collection #LoveTwitter #OneTeam
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Kennedy O'Brien
4 years
When this pandemic is over I hope to never have another can of Guinness... Till then
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Supporting #LimerickPride today at the Pride swim today 🌈 They couldn't have a parade, so this is the next best thing
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
This week, before playing music for a few thousand colleagues, I got to tell my entire company I was based in the Paris of the Irish mid-west, #Limerick . And honestly, would you want to be anywhere else? #OneTeam
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Kennedy O'Brien
5 years
It's not often that I say this about New Years, but last night was *class* ❤
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Kennedy O'Brien
1 year
Can't say I blame him. Andy Farrell and @IrishRugby have treated Kleyn very poorly
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Munster Rugby
1 year
Congrats to Jean Kleyn who may, pending approval, join RG Snyman in the Springbok training squad ahead of the Rugby Championship 👏 More info ⤵ #SUAF 🔴
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Kennedy O'Brien
6 years
Who has two thumbs up, a big green t-shirt, and a new contract at @Twitter ?
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Hearing people chatting about Emma's gig tomorrow when they don't know she's sitting behind them is a thrill tbh
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Kennedy O'Brien
3 years
Willow is very confused because @ELangfordMusic is on stage in front of a LIVE audience for the first time since we got her 😍 @doo
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