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'I'm a Drunk and No One Likes Me!'

Strip away the blustery attempts to win attention and love and you’re automatically a lot more interesting.

Heather Havrilesky
Mar 07, 2025
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Untitled (1960), Dorothea Tanning

A reader suggested this column in the comments from Tuesday’s dispatch (“People Always Think I’m Insulting Them When I’m Just Having a Laugh”). This one originally ran on The Awl in August of 2013. It feels fitting that the two should be such a study in contrasts: You do you vs. Time to change everything.

Although the sub…

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