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hi, i'm landice, an
#actuallyautistic
lesbian! i mostly read/review books w/ lgbtq+ rep & my fave genres are SFF & romance. let's be friends!
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Hold up, you mean to tell me the DEA shirked all responsibility for the ADHD medicine shortage while knowing full well that they'd forced a manufacturer who usually produced 600 million doses (12% of the national total) of ADHD meds per year to shut down???
Let's discuss 🧵
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i am so tired
The lesbian community needs to have a talk about why wlw books are so atrocious when fanfic is so good. We are not sending our best to publication and I must know why.
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What I want to get out of the way first and foremost is that I'm as skeptical of Big Pharma as the next person, but I don't trust the DEA, either. I can't personally confirm or disprove anything in this article, but if it *is* true then these revelations are HUGE.
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This thread will mainly be recapping NY Magazine's article The Empty Adderall Factory by James D. Walsh, because it seems like this article is finally giving us a little much needed clarity on what caused the Adderall shortage.
James D. Walsh reports on the Adderall shortage. Ascent Pharmaceuticals’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD medication crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
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people insisting young adult should mean 18-25 or whatever make me crazy bc that’s not at all what anyone is arguing about. we’re saying AS IS ya as a book category means 13-17. whatever it should actually mean, IT CURRENTLY MEANS BOOKS FOR TEENAGERS
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literally why we need to stop being afraid of new adult as a category. labeling this as YA with this art is squicky, like if the characters are 18+ (which i’m almost sure they are) then they are ADULTS. ya may have the word adult in it but we all know it’s usually meant for teens
I am once again begging publishers and authors to be cognizant about the damage they cause sexualizing teen characters. There is a huge difference between teens exploring their sexuality and teens’ sexuality being billed as “spicy” for an adult audience
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This paragraph brings the whole article home for me. I'm genuinely concerned the DEA might turn stimulant usage into their new crusade in an attempt to generate good PR to outweigh the bad PR of the opioid crisis, at the expense of those of us who rely on stimulants to function.
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And then finally, Ascent reveals that in the midst of all this, the FDA has been begging them to increase their production - like the FDA has reached out MULTIPLE TIMES - and all Ascent can do is tell them to talk to the DEA 💀
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All of that aside, it's terrifying that an ex-DEA agent would go on record to say he thinks the DEA is "creating a fake epidemic."
It's entirely too plausible that they'd set themselves up for a home run - "It's the opioid epidemic all over again, but this time, we'll win!" 😬
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The article includes something I find incredibly alarming: A health care economist says that some of her colleagues are concerned the shortage could be related to fear of future blame if stimulants become the next opioid crisis. (Remember this for later)
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i think sometimes i forget not all sapphics are attracted to women over 40 😂
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The DEA threw chronic pain patients under the bus, so why should people with ADHD/narcolepsy/etc be any different?
/end of thread, I think
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But, before we get into the NYMag article, I'm going to be using this October 2023 Time Magazine article to provide some background & context.
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Funny how the DEA hasn't mentioned this at all when grilled about the shortage. You'd think it'd be easy for them to explain that they shut down one of the manufacturers of ADHD meds, especially if their claims of Ascent's extreme misconduct are true.
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The truth of the matter is that prescription stimulants are not anywhere on the same risk level as opioids. They just aren't. But is that going to stop the DEA from treating them as though they are? Probably not 🙃
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Many, myself included, blamed the DEA for not allowing their quotas to keep up with rising demand. Then, the DEA came back with a statement claiming it had nothing to do with them, shifting all blame to the manufacturers. But, again, almost no concrete answers were given.
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The article goes on to address how the shortage has affected people: "To many observers in the industry, concerns about abuse of ADHD medications are outweighed by the harm done to the people with genuine diagnoses who can’t access the pills they need to function."
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I've kept up with the shortage since it began. The gist of every article about it is "no one knows why this is happening." This Time article even begins by saying as much: "The U.S. is facing a mystery of missing Adderall—one for which nobody has an answer."
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The article explains that the FDA's lax reporting standards are the "primary reason why there are still only theories about the shortage's cause" which are "impossible to investigate" because the agencies aren't required to provide much info to "the public and one another."
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"Curlz MT is like the font that you use when you want to go to Cirque du Soleil but you can only afford the dollar store." I'm 3 min into my second ever
@readwithcindy
video and I am howling both as a reader & a graphic designer 😂
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What I *do* know is that this seems to be the first concrete explanation for the shortage. I doubt the entire shortage can be blamed on the absence of Ascent's standard output of 12% of the nation's generic stimulant production, but surely at least some of it can.
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So, to recap:
Ascent claims their infractions were only minor paperwork errors and the DEA's response was disproportionate.
The DEA claims that Ascent "did not accurately account for millions of dosages of [narcotics]."
I can't tell you which of them is telling the truth.
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A former deputy commissioner of the FDA: “There is a fear that the overuse of prescribed amphetamines could lead to the equivalent of another opioid epidemic."
Another alarming implication that the DEA might begin treating stimulant usage as their next epidemic to 'fight' 😬
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So the company, Ascent, produced 12% of the country's generic stimulants in 2022. They claim they haven't been able to get their allotted materials from the DEA to make these meds, and "If [Ascent's] claims are true, that’s 600 million doses per year missing from the market."
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A month or so later, on Oct 31st, the DEA revealed that their probe into Ascent had actually been related to Operation Bottleneck - a panicked attempt to redeem the agency's public image after the opioid epidemic had torn it to shreds.
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it’s 2022, can we please for the love of god stop photoshopping older women’s wrinkles out of photos
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Moving on to the NYMag article, The Adderall Factory: A drugmaker’s feud with the DEA is exacerbating the ADHD meds crisis — at a rate of 600 million missing doses a year.
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y’all could always just… make a one last stop movie 💀
There is going to be a Red, White & Royal Blue sequel! It’s happening!
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Whatever Ascent did or did not do to deserve being shut down, the fact remains that they *were* shut down, and 600 million doses of generic stimulants went with them.
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In the spring of 2022, Ascent applied for their annual allotment of the raw chemical components used in narcotics and instead of it being approved, they were informed they were being audited.
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The article brings in a retired DEA agent to shill for the agency, which has notoriously never done a single thing wrong ever in their entire existence 🫡(sarcasm).
He also says "everybody is concerned about the increases in use of stimulants, not just the DEA and the FDA."
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The audit found that Ascent was keeping two sets of DEA forms (which is admittedly suspicious), but apparently despite this, everything had been correctly accounted for, other than two minor paperwork infractions.
(at least according to Ascent, so take this with a grain of salt)
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In September 2023 (around 1.5 years into the whole mess), Ascent filed a lawsuit to "compel" the DEA to formally respond to their quota requests, and the next day the DEA served them with a notice that they intended to revoke Ascent's registrations as a manufacturer & lab
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I said I was done, but as a related aside, I first found this article because of this tweet and in the replies, Claire links an article where a drug bust on the University of Texas campus included "Adderall" tablets THAT WERE ACTUALLY JUST 100% METH 🙃
Two things are happening simultaneously in the US:
- the prescription supply of ADHD meds has been artificially throttled, severely so
- meth is being made purer than ever, easier than ever, with the highest yields (literally) ever, and packaged to look exactly like Adderall
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The DEA said Ascent was guilty of far more egregious errors than the aforementioned 'paper discrepancies' mentioned above, alleging that Ascent "did not accurately account for millions of dosages of [narcotics]." As a result Ascent could no longer make ANY narcotic medicine.
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do people really not see how implying that a 26 year old can’t make their own informed decisions about their love life just bc they fell in love with a much older person is taking away the agency of a grown ass adult or do they not care
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uma thurman's voice when she says that first line????
w h e w
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@ItsNeeksYeah
Number 2 is the “extreme horror” author Matt Shaw who wrote an entire book called Moist Gusset, dedicated to a woman reviewer who gave him a bad review
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@katiedimartin
i just trick myself into it by listening to an audiobook while i shower bc then it doesn’t make me feel like i’m “wasting” time doing something tedious and annoying albeit necessary?
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it will never not be funny to me that the author who writes the best smut i’ve ever read is a huge fan of the author who wrote the worst smut i’ve ever read
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authors, if you leave twitter i’m begging you not to delete your whole account. so many of us probably have bookmarks or other info about your books saved that can come in handy for recs
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Lemme fix that for you: “Physical books… or audio books?”
Same question, no ableism :))))))
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yes,
@katee_robert
’s books changed my life & led to me reading more non-ff romance novels. yes, i am still a lesbian 🙃
i can’t believe this even has to be said, but: SEXUALITY ISN’T DETERMINED BY WHAT BOOKS SOMEONE READS/ENJOYS 🤦🏻♀️
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✨ Sapphic September 2022 Announcement ✨
#SapphicSeptember
is an annual, month-long readathon celebrating sapphic representation in books. This will be my third year hosting it and I could not be more excited!🥰
(thread)
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okay people who buy stickers and actually use them: HOW DO YOU DECIDE WHAT TO STICK THEM ON HOW DO I FINALLY START USING MY STICKERS
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i hate ppl saying sapphic when they actually mean lesbian as much as the next lesbian does but acting like sapphic isn't a super useful umbrella term is ridiculous
🧵
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okay obviously i’m not gonna post any nona spoilers bc i’m not an asshole & also because the publisher letter included this very clever warning
but i might make a thread that is solely my reactions while reading with 0 context given, just for funsies
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do people not realize how difficult it is to write non-cringey sex scenes 💀 like that shit is a SKILL
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✨
#SapphicSeptember
2023 Announcement ✨
@SapphicSept
is an annual, month-long readathon celebrating sapphic representation in books. This will be my 4th year hosting & this year I'm joined by my bff
@evilqueenreads
as my co-host! (thread)
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literally the best tweet ever
me: goodnight moon :)
moon: night<3
me: goodnight stars :)
moon: wtf
me: sry wrongnumber
moon: whos stars
moon: who is stars
moon: answer me
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i'm finally watching amc's interview with the vampire and as of episode 4 it is absolutely living up to the hype. so, so well done.
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Since last year was so much fun, I’ve decided to bring back the
#SapphicSeptember
readathon for 2021!
Check out the prompts below, then QRT this with the title of a sapphic book you’re excited to read, to help spread the word ✨
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Wait do people really just stop reading whatever books they hadn’t finished??? That’s so wild to me 😂 like i get dnfs bc you’re not vibing but DNFing bc you didn’t finish a book in time is wild to me lol
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IT ESCAPED BOOK TWITTER TO BECOME NATIONAL NEWS????? holy hell
A first-time author has been dropped by her U.S. publisher and her agent after readers and fellow authors accused her of posting fake negative reviews to a popular book recommendation website.
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there’s some shit i don’t have permission to speak on but just know i’m fucking LIVID about being duped by freydis for so long. like the longer i sit with it the angrier i get
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if taylor swift comes back and goes "yeah hahahaha question...? is from a male perspective" i will run outside and scream and simply never stop screaming i swear to god
#TSmidnighTS
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i am literally begging indie authors to make sure their books are on goodreads before marketing them, esp cover reveals. if there’s no way for readers to mark something as “to read” it’s entirely possible they’ll forget they ever wanted to read your book in the first place
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✨💖 SAPPHIC SEPTEMBER READATHON ANNOUNCEMENT 💖✨
I'm hosting a month long readathon & photo challenge celebrating sapphic books this September and I'd love if you joined me! More information available on my blog:
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the more i think about this the more convinced i am this would be the perfect plan to sabotage someone else’s career you disliked bc it’s so hard to disprove. i just can’t imagine anyone being dumb enough to leave an easy paper trail on their own knowing the risk to their career
If you as a debut author are going to make a bunch of fake Goodreads accounts one-star-bombing fellow debuts you're threatened by can you at least not make it so obvious by upvoting your own book on a bajillion different lists with those same accounts
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Holy crap, this blew up overnight. Nothing really to plug but if you wanted to tip me for spending 4 hrs writing & researching this thread you can do so on ko-fi! I’m a graphic designer trying to get their disability payments reinstated 🫡
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so many authors are publicizing their books using
#sapphicseptember
and my heart is so full? when i created this readathon back in 2020 i had no idea it would grow this much. it blows my mind and i’m so grateful for each and everyone one of you, participants & authors alike 🥹❤️
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@theashleyray
i think i literally also started it at the exact same time as you. could not BELIEVE he just fully admitted to everything with no shame
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Now I’m an hour past but uh. I had 5 years sober yesterday? So that’s pretty rad & also still very surreal
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So I always tell the story of how, as a teenager, I had a wall collage of middle aged women & added one photo of Alec Baldwin to throw my parents off & trick them into believing I wasn’t a lesbian 😂
I just found a photo of said collage and it’s blurry as hell but I’m dying 💀
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if you think this is normal “young person” behavior i, an alcoholic who finally got sober at 26 after years of blowing off my issues as “i’m just being young”, have some bad news
men love to date women 7 years their junior then moan about being at different life stages
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“i’ve read the classics”
this is an old trend but this audio was begging for a sapphic trifecta version ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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this would be the fastest way to make sure i never read your books and i’m absolutely certain i’m not alone in this 💀 oof
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Why on earth would you think this was a good idea,
@redbubble
? I was getting ready to make a big batch of new designs to try & make a little extra money but now it wouldn’t be worth the effort. How about dealing with all the stolen/plagiarized listings first?
Redbubble’s new tier system is literally theft and is going to kill the company if they actually implement it. Who on earth came up with this idea? They’re going to drive all their users off of the platform.
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@ThatBritte
the way my jaw dropped when he stormed out only for it to have been a bit 💀😂 which means it was a great bit but my naive ass was just like damn sam wasn’t kidding this season *is* more intense
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the funniest thing about this to me is that babel is all of the things they claim they want and it was HUGE on whatever side of booktok i’m on. i also get recs for other books that fit this criteria all the time. ppl must really make 0 effort to curate their own feeds huh
i get this sentiment but those books still exist 😭😭😭 ur just looking in the wrong place tiktok is its own bubble pls step beyond it
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raise your hand if you’ve been personally victimized by michelle gomez & miranda otto tangoing in the woods
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miranda otto and michelle gomez in chilling adventures of sabrina breath if u agree
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@RipperMD41
I believe it, as I got off of ADHD medicine when I was 17 and went to mu first AA meeting at 19 💀
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I read this and assumed the book must be coming out within the next couple of months and thus would probably have started printing, so tossing potentially thousands of copies would be super wasteful. but it's not out until MAY so uh.... 🤡🤡🤡
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@widowbarbie
@alittlepriests
@catsploitation
@madinaholic
i think cruella is supposed to be in her 20s or something in this so i GUESS i get not casting helena, unfortunately. BUT!!! EVA GREEN WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT! like i know she’s 39, but she doesn’t look it lol
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happy autism acceptance month! if i see a puzzle piece or light it up blue hashtag you will get blocked so fucking fast 🥰🥰🥰
auti$m speak$ is a hate group and supporting them HARMS actually autistic people like me ✌️
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“
@beardelacreme
: hEY trans ppl quote this with a selfie so everyone can see how powerful and cute u are”
http://t.co/i3A2YXaEGy
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multiple people told me to do this so here we go 💀
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i was 17 years old when i got the gardasil shots. they gave them to me in school. the nurse had to physically CHASE me down the hall bc i was so scared of needles. kids/teens being scared of needles isn’t specific to the covid vaccine, for the love of god 🤦🏻♀️
Never forget what they did to our children.
Girl cries "no, please! no, please! I don't want it, please!" while 5 masked hospital workers stand over her and force the COVID vaccine.
When a patient says no, you stop.
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@LindaM32109623
@KillerMartinis
@TurtlesongFarm
just fyi - i went to do some digging because i was so mad and apparently this isn’t true. the law did kick off a shift towards profit but it wasn’t illegal prior. more info:
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goddamnit i thought i’d found a new butch lesbian celebrity to crush on but this is a whole ass man 😭😭😭
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I had 4 years sober on Saturday and I still can’t believe it. As cheesy as it sounds, I’m grateful as hell to be who I am today rather than the person I was four years ago.
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second time i’ve had to tap the sign this week 🤦🏻♀️
It's okay, yes you read 3 books a week but what is the retention?
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cinnamon roll: hilda spellman
sinnamon roll: madam satan
eye roll: zelda spellman
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@SarahMackAttack
Burning Roses by SL Huang, A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers, The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells, The Cybernetic Tea Shop by Meredith Katz, the Wayward Children novellas by Seanan McGuire, Final Girls by Mira Grant
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balloon day (aka i’m 31 now, which doesn’t feel possible yet here we are lmao)
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Today’s the day! I’m graduating… And I’m Valedictorian 🙌😭
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y’all still masking?
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