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Lisa Marie's avatar

Your writing makes me mad at how good it is. I also love that I'm not the only one who rolls my eyes at Gatsby parties. I've said on many occasions, "It's not a Gatsby party unless someone ends up dead in the pool at the end. Otherwise, it's just a sparkling prohibition party."

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Sarah's avatar

New York is a party which is why everyone wants to move here but also why we are all so miserable. I’m almost 10 years here now, trying to explain this to my 22 year old sister who wants to move here after college. You are never quite so lonely as after a bad party, stumbling home disappointed. You’re never quite so lonely as the day in New York that you discover it’s not a party. The money you are spending is real. The fights are real. Everything counts and this is real life. It’s not on pause. That it is a place where people have to live their life one day at a time like everyone else. She doesn’t believe me. Maybe one day she will.

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