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I’m 64 and I want to send this to someone but I don’t know anybody who cares but me!

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"than to even toy with the idea of letting anything but distance come between myself and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. " is such a perfectly phrased sentence. I myself am a 1972 person, and the mental shenanigans of that man have been known for decades. Decades. He is brain worms personified, and as dateable as Martin Shkreli, which is to say not at all.

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12 hrs agoLiked by Clara

I’m also a 1993 girlie. And I’m confident I’m the only person in my life who knows about this and cares - and while I am jealous of the peace in my loved ones’ lives, I NEED TO DISCUSS.

She says it wasn’t physical and implies there was only texting but it was personal; he says “I MET HER ONCE”. So the wrinkly 70 year old pics were swapped when, after she followed up to fact check the make and model of his stanky car????

My day is derailed.

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DERAILED!

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It was the Mad Max experience that did it for her

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To risk it all for TEXTS took me out 😂

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my non-media-obsessed boyfriend did not understand why I was absolutely THRIVING scrolling through twitter last night. it’s the nuttiest mad lib of a 2024 story and I can’t get enough.

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i was liking every related tweet like it was my JOB, Lauren!!

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10 hrs agoLiked by Clara

This might be my favorite phrase of 2024: “the food desert that was its host's cranial cavity.” I showed it to my Zoomer (who knows you from TikTok) and she shrieked, so it has cross-generational appeal!

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Oh I love this, thank you!!

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12 hrs agoLiked by Clara

I hope she does write that essay for your sake, specifically so we get your thoughts on that. Especially as someone who did not know who she was until I read this but enjoyed this immensely😂

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from your lips to god's ears!!!

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11 hrs agoLiked by Clara

I've never wanted to know and NOT want to know a secret contact name at the same time before.

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I can't handle not knowing what exactly "not physical" means.

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It is somehow so much worse than “just physical”???

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I do not even know how to go on with my day, my week, my month, or even my year.

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The word discombobulated was made for precisely how I feel about this today !!!

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Sitting here trying to explain it to my husband and my brain keeps shorting out. I don’t think I can blame perimenopause for this one 🤯

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11 hrs agoLiked by Clara

I can’t explain it but - This. This is the article that finally tipped the balance and made me subscribe.

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12 hrs agoLiked by Clara

I’m aghast

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Reading your excellent shock-rant, I thought, I want to find this “hit piece” and read it! Before I needed to, you began to describe, albeit briefly, the article and BAM! I remembered: I read that! And I heard every word she wrote as flirty! I thought at the time it must just be me, New York wouldn’t publish this if it sounded flirty to anyone else. She was all “gosh, blush, really, oh my, giggle, ahhh” through the whole thing. It. Was. So. Obvious. Thank you for this excellent post!! 🎯

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Vinnie I will be thinking about this comment for the rest of the day, thank you! x

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This made me laugh so much!! I live in Britain so I don't even know who these people are (although obviously I know about the Kennedy family) and I still chuckled my big Brit butt off reading your article. Your writing brings me joy.

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She may be nutty to get involved with him, but the one who's sanity I worry about more is his current wife. Who married him even after his former wife KILLED HERSELF during their divorce. I wonder if current wife knows about all this, and if she'll stay? Ack.

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oh cheryl knew alllll about him when they got started!

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Cheryl should have bailed months (years?) ago. That she hasn't done so has led me to conclude that she's all in on his idiocy. Very much popping popcorn to see what she'll do about this.

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I only even know of her because she guested in one of my kids tv shows when they were babies. 😅

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I am READY for the unhinged Cut piece

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Baited! Breath!

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