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TEA!!!!! i had so many moments of vulnerability both at KOP and at my mall in my own town in pennsylvania—it's integral to who i am and what encompasses my style and i love this piece

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🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤 PA girls forever- it’s so beautifully crazy that we had the same moments of discomfort in a paralleled time and ended up in similar places 😭

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Feb 11Liked by emily north

Omg thanks for sharing this piece!! Like you, I spent countless hours of my teen years at the KOP mall and I think it’s shaped me into who I am today…not to make it cheesy or anything. I miss mall culture (though I love the convenience of online shopping), I miss wandering aimlessly, touching all the fabrics, hauling a million pieces into the fitting room, forgetting abt the outside world. It makes me feel a little bad for todays generation of teens who don’t really have that same experience anymore

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PRIYA!!!! thank you so much for sharing and reading!!! “forgetting the outside world” is so right- i felt like i existed only without those artificial walls. appreciative your perspective and i love a fellow KOPer 🤍🤍🤍

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absolutely binge reading rn, but this was so niche and conjured up so many kop memories for me!! loved!!!

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This is gorgeous ❤️💜❤️I went to Bloomingdale’s at KOP with my Grandmom and worked at Brook’s Brothers there nights and weekends when I first moved home from college. Thank you for this!!

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