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THE RAAAANGE!!!! You were born dipped in cool, baby. I love your story, I love the bends and the u-turns. I love where you’re headed now and I especially love that you allow us to gobble it up on the way.

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Queen this means the world 🥹 happy as hell to share and have you here

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I’m still going to try code “DIA15” 😎❤️‍🔥

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This actually made me LOL HAHAHAH 😂 I need it to work somewhere

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Rag & bone, I’m coming in hot!!!

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You have fantasy in your writer's heart. Your work hits hard. I don't even have much time to read Cultural essays but I'd walk across the street to read yours and I rarely leave my house.

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This is the best praise EVER. THANK YOU 🩷🩷🩷

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1,000% same.

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Your writing is *chefs kiss*

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Beyond flattered as I’ve been a huge fan/follower of yours for years 🥹

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You are hitting so many points I tried to convey to students at a CT college where I was their newspaper advisor/instructor and some to tell myself. You are a talented storyteller. I re-read every word here. And been there and LMAO: " wasn’t getting paid by this corny ass site but I didn’t care because I was writing" Oh I wrote for a 'corny ass' site when I was working in a newsroom and wanted to break out on my own. The site was very well known (around 2010+) and got professional writers to create columns, mine was an award winner...then had the audacity to take these "clips" down, never paid any of us, when they went 'legit' and hired a staff.

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Thank you so much for reading! 🫶🏼🫶🏼🫶🏼 such a damn shame about not getting paid… lessons learned right? 🙃

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this is absolutely iconic. loved loved LOVED every word here <3

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THANK YOU LOVE ❤️❤️

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‘‘Women are Born Writers because they Write Nations and Leaders.’’

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You still an influencer

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if the shoe fits unfortunately haha

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Enjoyed this

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Appreciate you reading!

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Good insight 😌. Can I translate part of this article into Spanish with links to you and a description of your newsletter?

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Yes absolutely!!

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Vibes are off, you say? Then make your writing sing like Dia's.

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she’s singing for her supper over here 😏

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You remind us how easy it is to get lost in the noise, chasing validation, until the echoes become unbearable. What you wrote speaks to something universal and that is the struggle to align who we are with what we do. To stay true, even when the world tempts us with shortcuts that feel wrong in our bones. You chose the harder path. The honest one. And that’s worth everything.

Keep writing. Keep living honestly. The world needs more of that. More of you.

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What a beautiful comment. This one will really stick with me. Thank you so much for reading and being here

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you were born to write! I love reading your stuff. Hope pregnancy is going well!

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Thank you sooo much Kendall 😍❤️

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Talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same. Subscribed.

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Omg THANK YOU GORGEOUS ❤️❤️❤️

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Thanks for taking us along memory lane with you, that was a very interesting read <3

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So happy to bring everyone along 🫶🏼 thank you for reading!

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Fantastic piece.

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Appreciate you reading 🫶🏼🫶🏼

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Appreciate you writing. Good voice, clean prose, the freelance editor brain didn’t even find any real hangnails, and people pay me for that shit. A++ Will gladly continue to read whatever you put out. (I can only imagine I read some of those schlock articles on Elite Daily, my god.)

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May you remain a scrupulous reader and let me know if I ever fuck up royally 🫶🏼

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Bout to run an editorial fiction workshop for short stories (4k word cap) with a comrade from the indie editor world. But on Substack posts I’m usually pretty vocal.

I cannot turn the editor brain off. I edit as I read everything on this platform. I hate myself for it.

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