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Why Lorde’s Melodrama Is Still the Ultimate Soundtrack for a Quarter-Life Crisis
There is a very specific kind of panic that sets in somewhere between your twenty-second and twenty-eighth birthdays. It is the sudden, dizzying realization that the blueprint you were handed for adulthood does not actually exist. The friendships that felt permanent in college begin to drift, career paths feel more like mazes than ladders, and […]
Hi, I’m Jamie. I write loud opinions, hunt down weird products, and tell on real life. Since 2006.
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Author of five books. Survivor. Mother. Hotline psychic. Professional over-sharer. I’ve been doing this since 2006 — outlasted two marriages, which honestly feels worth mentioning. I write loud opinions because someone has to, and the only rule is: tell the truth, even if your voice shakes.
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