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Jenovia 🕸️'s avatar

“I want to blow my money on crypto and strippers and Annie’s mac & cheese.” I fucking love you, bish. Also love love love that you’ve been keeping a journal. What a goldmine! Happy New Year darling angel, sending you so much love now and forever ❤️‍🔥

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Dia Lupo's avatar

HAHAHAH LIKEEEE I NEED TO KNOW WHAT I WAS GOING THROUGH THE DAY I WROTE THAT. LOVE you!!!! happy happy new year to you and Joe :-D

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Courtney L Miller's avatar

This made me literally LOL! Well done. I posted for the first time a couple of days ago. Reading this post inspired me - Thank you!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

love to hear it!! :-D thanks for reading!

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Holly Starley's avatar

Haha! I came here to say that this was my favorite line of this post. Love that you love it too, Jenovia.

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Jenovia 🕸️'s avatar

🫶🏼🫂 same 😍

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Caroline's avatar

I second this!!!

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Lisa Kholostenko's avatar

"You can make a milestone out of anything."

Girl, same. I can reminisce an innocuous event like it was the Summer of '69. (I'm a Taurus)

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Absolutely love a Taurus for precisely this reason

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jade hurley 💌's avatar

that ending was PERFECT!!!! love this sm

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Dia Lupo's avatar

THANK YOU LOVE <3 :-D

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Chiara's avatar

Oh god nothing hits harder than getting a new pen (that’s good)

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Dia Lupo's avatar

TRUTH

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Violet Carol's avatar

Idk what magic is in your brain to make your thoughts fall out like this but it’s a JOY to read 🩵

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Dia Lupo's avatar

omg queen that is SO KIND <333 sending so much love

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Christian Näthler's avatar

Every day I wake up grateful that the Raptors drafted Barnes over Suggs, free throw milestone notwithstanding

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Dia Lupo's avatar

most importantly you guys have Gradey Dick which is just a spectacular name

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Isabel Cowles Murphy's avatar

The seagull splayed in crucifixion, not wanting to watch mass deportations, the ecstasy of a silky pen. Is that what you mean by being a pussy bc don’t stop with these exquisite sensitivities they just SING…maybe also because the tempo of your intro was so ratatatatat

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Dia Lupo's avatar

real writers recognize TEMPO (which I absolutely modeled after rereading an old Mary Ruefle essay)

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Lindsay Byron's avatar

Kudos to the Stone Cold Stunner reference. I’m a big wrestling fan. And congrats on your pregnancy!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

to be a stripper/professor/wrestling fan all in one... I think you're the coolest. thank you so much angel :-D

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QuYahni B Joseph's avatar

This right here:

“I went for a walk yesterday and cried over a dead bird. In my defense, it was a large seagull splayed out in haunting crucifixion, its wings wide open and its legs stick straight. I don’t think that necessarily makes me a pussy but it’s illustrative of the sensitivity I seek to temper.”

When I was pregnant with my second born, I cried over a rat that a fellow passenger who was also waiting for the D train stomped on the head and kicked onto the tracks (I could tell he had done this before). I was deathly terrified of rats back then, but watching that poor little thing, bloody, chest sporadically heaving as it took its last breaths, knowing the train was coming to finish it off, really had my emotions in a chokehold.

I’m thinking maybe it was the pregnancy hormones? You’ll be back to not giving a fuck or whatever after the post-partum passes 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Oh my GOD. The way I would have passed out seeing that go down. Lord let me reach some “dgaf” vibes SOON 🫶🏼😂

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Holly Starley's avatar

What a resolution!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

We keep it real around here 🫡🫶🏼

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Nur Nadar's avatar

Chaotic good Frances

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Dia Lupo's avatar

😎😎😎

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Caroline's avatar

How are you so goddamn amazing?!? Just how?!?! Happy near year, Mama!!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

HAPPY NEW YEAR QUEEN OF HEARTS ♥️

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C.S. Mee's avatar

I LOVE the journal entries especially Sept 23 + Nov 26 <3

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Ty so much angel 😍

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Armaan Ajoomal's avatar

the switch from november 26th to dec 22nd helps remind me of the fact that we humans have such silly little brains and are so dramatic. and sometimes im like "ugh for what REASON" and then i remember a dramatic life is so much more fun than a non-dramatic one.

ty <33

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Drama makes the world go round, baby 💖 Happy new year 😍

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Roman Newell's avatar

Your journal entries hit me in a funny place because of their honesty and vulnerability. I'm glad you have a man who loves you and reassures you and reminds you you're perfect just the way you are.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Im really fucking glad for that too 🥹🥹🥹

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Gregg B.'s avatar

Never too late in the year to, umm, try to hit new milestones! I will also try not to be afraid to try new things!

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Dia Lupo's avatar

👍👍👍

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