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Jenovia 🕸️'s avatar

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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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Caroline's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Caroline's avatar

Rag & bone, I’m coming in hot!!!

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Michael Spencer's avatar

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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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Isabel Cowles Murphy's avatar

1,000% same.

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Ayesha Erkin's avatar

Your writing is *chefs kiss*

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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Donna Christopher's avatar

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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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Chiara's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

THANK YOU LOVE ❤️❤️

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M F R Siddiqui's avatar

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

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Space Cowboy 5557 Q's avatar

You still an influencer

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Dia Lupo's avatar

if the shoe fits unfortunately haha

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Alison Cayne's avatar

I don’t know how this found its way to me but grateful it did. Killer killer writing.

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Dia Lupo's avatar

I'm grateful for that, too :) thank you so much for reading!

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Luke Burgis's avatar

Enjoyed this

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Appreciate you reading!

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Salvador Lorca 📚 ⭕️'s avatar

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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Dia Lupo's avatar

Yes absolutely!!

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Isabel Cowles Murphy's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

she’s singing for her supper over here 😏

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Wasim's avatar

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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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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Kendall Brown's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Thank you sooo much Kendall 😍❤️

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Lisa Kholostenko's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

Omg THANK YOU GORGEOUS ❤️❤️❤️

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Bethany Bell's avatar

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

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Dia Lupo's avatar

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

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