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Author of HUNGRY PEOPLE from @splitlippress . Debut novel LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER out now! Repped by @ktgreenst

St. Paul, Minnesota
Joined November 2008
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
In life changing news, I am so so thrilled to be working with @Leodora_ and @JAMonroe on my debut novel, If I Kill You. Endless thanks to my agent @ktgreenst for making it happen.
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3 years
I cannot stop laughing
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3 years
On his chart for prognosis today the doctor wrote “put a hat on him” 😭😭😭
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8 months
The fact that I wrote a paper and did a conference presentation about this meme and no one came is emblematic of the problem
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2 years
Elon Musk can’t hurt me with tweet views; I’ve published short stories and tried to get my friends and family to read them.
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3 years
Vaseline burrito has been moved to a regular crib and is coming home tomorrow!
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3 years
Ronan Oliu Coryell was born on 2/22/2022. He’s in the NICU because he likely has a skin condition that causes very dry skin, so he is currently soaking in all the Vaseline.
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Tasha Coryell
6 years
If you don’t like students don’t teach.
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6 years
Lets flip that meme around: what’s something that should be obvious, but your profession seems to misunderstand?
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4 months
Every time the Supreme Court releases a decision
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I tested positive for Covid. I’m fully vaccinated. I’ve been double masking in the classroom. I wear a mask at the gym. I maybe see three vaccinated friends a month if I’m lucky. I’m just really mad.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Alabama fans are like “don’t talk to me unless your football team beat the number #1 team and your basketball team beat the #3 team yesterday” and I’m here to say that no one is going to try to talk to us because we’re being very annoying about it.
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3 months
It was extremely traumatizing having my embryos held hostage in Alabama earlier this year and I'm planning to volunteer for Kamala's campaign because Republicans have plans to further restrict reproductive rights nationwide.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
@svershbow I have a former racing greyhound that doesn't know how to show affection very well because she lived on a race track for the first five years of her life, but she is a master at the dog lean.
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1 year
A lot of white people are about to be surprised when they still don’t get into the colleges they think they should get into.
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7 years
I’m happy for everyone that hates Tom Brady, which is all of us. Finally America is united.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
My stance on the movie Labyrinth is that I would stay in the castle with David Bowie the goblin king for all of eternity.
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Tasha Coryell
7 years
What if instead of a Super Bowl, there’s a 3 hour long episode of The Good Place and Lizzo performs in the middle.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I passed my PhD exams despite breakthrough covid and despite the other stress and anxieties that have filled this year.
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Tasha Coryell
11 months
Honestly, my full opinion is that Alabama should be in the playoff because I want them to be. I don’t care about strength of schedule or losses or whatever. They should be in because I like it!!!
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
The TT faculty in my department recently voted to not grant voting privileges to contract instructors who’ve been with the department 7 years or longer. It’s incredibly difficult to work with and interact with people who don’t respect you, your scholarship, or role in the dept.
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On this day 8 years ago I discovered a letter in my adjunct mailbox at University of Nebraska letting me know I wouldn’t be needed next semester. No phone call. Not even an email. A letter after the semester had ended.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
I’ve been obsessed with hotel continental breakfasts since we’ve been stuck at home, so Brian made me my own continental breakfast for my birthday.
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2 years
How is this real
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2 years
Dr. Tasha Lamberto Coryell
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
Important question: It’s the year 2000. You’re 22 and are living off your trustfund. You’re going to visit your ex-girlfriend (you’re also a lesbian). What band shirt do you wear?
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Tasha Coryell
8 months
Fuck all the way off
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Portia ♍️ McGonagal
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Who. Did. She. Vote. For.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
So happy to be home ❤️
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
For the past five years, I have been teaching a 4/4, completing my PhD, working through infertility & IVF, and continuing to write novels through it all. I’m now on the verge of completing my doctorate, my novel is getting published, and I have a super cute baby.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Passed the written portion of my PhD exams 🎉🎉🎉
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I think that male dominated professions are more likely allow employees to wfh because the assumption is that they would be working (what else) whereas when women want to work from home it’s assumed they have nefarious caretaking responsibilities that might overshadow work.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Father’s Day cards are one of the weirdest genres of writing. They’re all like “Thank you Dad for earning money, grilling meat, and threatening my boyfriends with guns”
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Tasha Coryell
3 months
This morning Summer had a seizure and her condition continued to deteriorate and we made the impossible decision to let her go. She got me through some of the hardest times of my life and she’ll be in my thoughts forever.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I got a new phone today and I'm throwing the box away immediately instead of in seven years from now. Please admire my strength.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
My symptoms are really mild. I have congestion, a sore throat, some brain fog and headaches. I credit the mildness to the vaccine. My biggest symptom is endless rage.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
I live in Alabama and I can get Diet Coke, Indian food, Japanese food, Chinese food, Mexican food, fried chicken, and some sex toys within a ten minute walk of my house, so I basically live in New York I guess.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Voting Trump out won’t solve all our problems, but it will solve the problem that Donald Trump is president, which is a big problem.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
New person is dropping this March
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I’m ready a mystery novel where a woman is dreaming of leaving her drug dealing career for academia and I’m like, DON’T
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
I announced this yesterday, but I'm going to keep announcing until everyone has bought this book and the next. I've waited so long for my own publisher's marketplace announcement.
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Tasha Coryell
5 months
@ambernoelle My financial adviser told us that they’ve done studies that show people don’t feel secure in their wealth until they have 200 million dollars.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Already having anxiety about Gus running for office
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Tasha Coryell
8 years
I'm excited to release this blurb for my novel.
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Tasha Coryell
1 year
Alabama couples on gameday
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1 year
Justin Bieber and Hailey Bieber arrive at Krispy Kreme in Times Square in New York City.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
This man has started smiling at us to get out of going to bed
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Tasha Coryell
7 years
Boys: AIM is where I first learned to talk to girls! Girls: AIM is where I first learned that boys are monsters!
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
@aubreyhirsch I haven't read mine since I got one that said I talk like a girl, which makes me sound unintelligent.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Honestly, under Kay Ivey's rhetoric of "there is no way to enforce it," why have any laws at all?
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Tasha Coryell
4 months
I decided I wanted to be a writer when I was eight years old. 28 years later, my debut novel, Love Letters to a Serial Killer, is finally on the shelf. The path didn’t always look the way I thought it would, but I am so grateful to be here ❤️
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Tasha Coryell
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I completed my PhD while teaching a 4/4, experiencing the emotional turmoil of infertility and then IVF, a pandemic, pregnancy, and a baby. I wrote several novels, ran a marathon, and did candidate training on the side. It was very hard. And I did it.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
It’s only when Alabama basketball is doing well that you can see how truly traumatized longtime Alabama basketball fans are.
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Tasha Coryell
5 months
A year ago today I became Dr. Tasha and I will continue to post my grad photos the way that other people post their wedding photos
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Congratulations to Ronan for both peeing and pooping on the table at his first pediatrician appointment.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
We don’t have a good sense of how his skin will be in the future, but he’s healthy and happy in every other aspect. We’re very glad he’s here.
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Tasha Coryell
7 years
WE DID IT!!!!!
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Tasha Coryell
1 year
I moved to Tuscaloosa in August 2012 and meant to stay three or four years to get my MFA. Almost 11 years later, I have an MFA, PhD, a husband, a baby, a dog, a short story collection with a small press, and a forthcoming debut novel. I will always be grateful for this place.
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3 years
Why is this every job
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Brian and I are home now. Ronan will likely join us sometime next week. Thank you for all the love ❤️
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Tasha Coryell
6 years
Bryant-Denny Stadium blasting Gucci at 6:45am is what I like to call “BDE” or “Bryant-Denny Energy.” If you’re wondering, I’ve been filled with feel self-loathing since I made this joke to myself an hour ago.
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Tasha Coryell
3 months
I feel like if the Democratic Party can go from basically no campaign to Quavo and Meg Thee Stallion at a packed Atlanta rally in a week and a half, they can be doing more when we elect them too.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Today was Ronan’s due date. We knew for awhile that he wasn’t going to make it there and then he arrived even before we anticipated. Caring for a baby is hard, but I’m so glad he’s here.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I passed my prospectus defense and am officially ABD 🎉🎉🎉
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
I’ve been having a really hard time on Sundays for the last few months, so today I made homemade poptarts.
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
I’m sad to announce that the University of Alabama has declined my offer of $10 to rename its law school “Do You Even Know Who My Dad Is School of Law.” I will always appreciate my time of zero years working with UA law & look forward to future opportunities.
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Tasha Coryell
8 months
My Alabama IVF baby is two years old today. I’m so so grateful to be able to watch him grow.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Insomnia hang with the Vaseline burrito. Big progress from yesterday to today as last night they didn’t want us to hold him for fear of disturbing his IV. Tonight he is off of his IV.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
She still needs to be spayed before we can take her home, but this is happening
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Do men realize that masks will hide their lack of jawline better than a beard?
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Tasha Coryell
7 months
Every bill is like “we’ve eliminated schools. Kids will learn math while working the nightshift at the Northport water park. Also, everyone lives in a prison now that we’re paying a billion dollars for. Healthcare doesn’t exist.”
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Tasha Coryell
7 months
I did not expect to be this stressed out by the Alabama legislative session even after moving away. Someone needs to start a fund to buy all the journalists and progressive advocates flowers or cookies or something.
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
What is the literary equivalent of the banana taped to the wall? I refuse to believe that writers have less bullshit than visual artists.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I have taught a bunch of Alabama football players and I will always defend the work they put in. This is obviously an Urban Meyer subtweet.
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Tasha Coryell
8 months
I wish I could show the version of myself that couldn’t stop crying in the NICU this picture
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Ronan Oliu Coryell was born on 2/22/2022. He’s in the NICU because he likely has a skin condition that causes very dry skin, so he is currently soaking in all the Vaseline.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Brian took Ronan to Target this morning and some women said "mom must be sleeping in today" and I just want them to know that I got up at 5am and have written multiple pages of both my novel and my dissertation, cleaned my office, made food, and walked Summer.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I’m taking the written portion of my PhD exams this morning. Please send me good thoughts!
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Tasha Coryell
5 months
She’s here 😍
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Tasha Coryell
2 months
The TT creative writing professors at Stanford made the decision to let go of all the NTT lecturers who taught a majority of undergraduate cw courses after they asked for a living wage. ?
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Thirteen months ago I had a baby and today I beat my half marathon personal record by ten minutes for 1:47:29 coming in second in my age group and the tenth female finisher overall.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
My dude is one month old today! We had to put away all the newborn clothes because he got too long for them.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I cried while talking to every person I interacted with this morning and then shoved two plain pancakes in my mouth and miraculously stopped crying.
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Tasha Coryell
1 year
Can’t tell me nothing
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
The UA water tower is really bringing the trash talk tonight
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
When it’s October 1st Cc: @iSmashFizzle
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
Everyone is sad about bell hooks because everyone has read bell hooks because she made her writing purposefully accessible to everyone and most of academia still has not learned from this.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I am staying with Ronan in a room adjacent to the NICU while Brian finishes getting the house ready for his arrival. Wish me luck on the five diaper changes, vasoline, and feeding sessions that I have to do before morning.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
@aubreyhirsch The day after Ronan was born and was in the NICU I told Brian that he could play as many videos games as he wants
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
What people outside of creative writing fail to realize is that Seth Abramson used to be known for making a list of MFA program rankings that made everyone mad.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
The Alabama legislature spent the entire spring banning vaccine mandates and trying to make it as hard as possible to enforce masking. I will never forgive them.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Without saying too much, Brian was extremely kind in his resignation post but I have enough salt about how he was treated to cure some meat.
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Tasha Coryell
11 months
I did my first ever 10k when I was 23 on Thanksgiving and it took me nearly an hour and fifteen minutes. 12 years older and a baby later, I got a personal record on Thanksgiving at 49 minutes.
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I can’t tell whether the UA board of trustees is ramping up the bad decisions lately or if @TheCrimsonWhite is doing an exceptionally good job amplifying their bad decisions.
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Dissertation defense day. Wish me luck!
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
I've been dealing with infertility for a little over two years and I'm terrified of Roe being overturned because lack of abortion access equals decreased care in every aspect of reproductive health.
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Tasha Coryell
8 months
Something that has been made very clear this week is that people who have gone through fertility treatments understand the reproductive system 1000% better than the general public and certainly better than many judges and politicians.
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
Elizabeth Warren is out of the race, but the good news is that I will remember your misogyny forever ❤️
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Tasha Coryell
2 years
Getting some good feedback from my writing group this morning
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
One of these things happened today and it’s not a baby 👀👀👀
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Tasha Coryell
3 years
I don't know when an agent is going to request a full manuscript and I don't know when I'm giving birth, but I know that this will be the same day.
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Tasha Coryell
7 years
@JYSexton The long con wasn't Hillary Clinton, it was destroying months of your work.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Again, I am begging UA to move the semester online. Every single undergraduate is getting exposed to covid tonight.
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Today Summer met @DougJonesHQ and she was able to bring up all the issues that are important to her.
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Tasha Coryell
5 years
Like a lot of women I know and love, I wrote something in response to the abortion ban passed last week:
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Tasha Coryell
4 years
Wow. So glad that I’m not married to whatever instructor said this.
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One University of Alabama instructor says-- brace yourself-- a college football season in 2020 might be a bad idea for everyone.
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