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'I Need More Recklessness in My Life!'

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Heather Havrilesky
Feb 22, 2023
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Landscape: Grey and Pink (1979) by Helen Lundeberg

Dear Polly,

I recently did something really uncharacteristic — I slept with a married person. I am not reckless generally and I'm not interested in casual sex or pursuing people in relationships, so it was a shock. There was a fuck ton of alcohol involved. (I was secretly in love with her, so it wasn't li…

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