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Caroline's avatar

Incredible list on both ends!! Also adding to things that are none of my business: whatever the back of my hair looks like

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emily north's avatar

LOL YES

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ep's avatar

I say this all the time. yes.

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Lu's avatar

This substack should unequivocally be everyone's business since it's so damn delicious and pertinent and important, thank you♡ the whole "not my business"sentiment feels so liberating♡

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emily north's avatar

thank you!!

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izzy 💙's avatar

agree EXCEPT boys talking about girls amongst themselves, bc u just know those chats are getting worse and worse - thats my business.

however girls talking about boys absolutely fine not ya business.

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emily north's avatar

LOL co-signed

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Caroline Beuley's avatar

I freaking loved this. I too, find "find my friends" to be a bit much, and I'm glad to find someone else who agrees hahaha

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emily north's avatar

❤️❤️

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sadie's avatar

I know!! As a high schooler, it’s really bad here. Like, I don’t want to know what my friends are doing 24/7. That sounds toxic

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emily north's avatar

sweet sweet muffin

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Caroline Beuley's avatar

agreeee

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maja roglić's avatar

I had an acquaintance from college ask me recently, aren't you worried about people from school reading this? baby it's none of my business what they read

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emily north's avatar

me with anyone from work

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maja roglić's avatar

YES precisely

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Caroline Hughes's avatar

My favorite writer on this app!

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Ethan from Human Pursuits's avatar

"whether people are gossiping about you" god I hope so

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emily north's avatar

exactly

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Mimi's avatar

Same! Much love to my Haters 😘

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Elle's avatar

this is the best post ever and should absolutely be required reading for everyone

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emily north's avatar

thank YOU !!!

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sarah cucchiara's avatar

really really awesome stuff

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Audrey Vinkenes's avatar

For me aliens and space are really the winner in this list lol. You could never get me to care about going to space, and aliens...I don't get the obsession. I have honestly no stakes in whether they exist or not.

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emily north's avatar

no seriously

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Angelina Hazzouri's avatar

🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

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Olivia Jenkins's avatar

okay going to make lists like this from now on

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emily north's avatar

hell yeah

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kait's avatar

coming out of the april fog and needed all of these reminders :,)

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EDTHEGOATKILLER's avatar

I find the juxtaposition of you declaring how insane the question the stranger at the party asked you and advised to never ask it, and yet it unearthed something profound in you.

And that’s what I find so lovely and interesting— maybe it’s in the things we least expect where we find ourselves again, in a nostalgic reintroduction. You didn’t think, you just responded and surprised your own self in a powerful way. Or maybe it’s how it doesn’t matter if people ask the wrong questions, it doesn’t matter what others do, because of course back to your title- it’s none of our business.

But it is our business to be ourselves genuinely and authentically.

Went on a random tangent here but whatever I’m happy to have found you and this post, thank you. i appreciate you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, too 🙏

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Jia's avatar

Need to print this out and slap on my wall

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Robert William Davis Castro's avatar

Enjoy it fully, your relationship with you is strong, hard, very critical, acidic, uncomplacent, but brutally real to you and that is respected and appreciated.

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emily north's avatar

thank you robert !!

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