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" I'm definitely an indoor kid who's turned into an inside person. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Person
Definitely
Inside
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" In New York, you collect a thousand encounters a year, a passel of handshakes, a zillion air-kisses, and boatloads of business cards that you pitch into your purse and eventually deposit your chewing gum into. Amid this break-neck montage of glancing contacts, I'm tormented by the constant thrumming fear of being fingered as a flake. "
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" Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous. "
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" Instagram is not a place for tone or irony. "
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" 'Sorry' is unlike anything Bieber has made in the past. It has been classified as 'tropical house' and 'dancehall,' but everyone seems to agree on one thing: It's a banger. "
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" When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign. "
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She
" I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.' "
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Human
Better
" You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more. "
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" Teens are strange and magical. "
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Teens
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" From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels. "
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First
" In order to be a good emergency contact, you need a lot of friend-patience and empathy. Often, this comes from personal experience with anxiety, trauma, and depression. "
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" SoulCycle feels gross, is gross, and I'm grateful to have found it. "
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Grateful
Feels
Gross
" I cannot quantify the physics of friendships and do not know exactly how much intense pressure can be applied before these glittery, brittle bonds break. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Break
Pressure
Physics
" Yes, Justin Bieber is a contrivance. Yes, Justin Bieber's lyrics are insipid - worse still, disingenuous. Yes, his tattoos stink. Yes, he's lousy at skateboarding. But what does any of this actually matter? In case you missed it, Bieber won. "
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Tattoos
You
Yes
" Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down. "
Mary H.K. Choi
Home
Climb
Down
" Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that? "
Mary H.K. Choi
Aside
How
Great
" The thing that I find interesting about teens now is that no matter how desperate we seem to be taxonomically 'othering' them, for one reason or another - because the Internet, because whatever - I feel like a lot of the benchmarks and the experiences are, you know, same for teens through time immemorial. "
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You
Interesting
Time
" There's a really generous readership with YA. "
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Readership
Generous
Ya
" Food rules. Little rivals the pleasure of tearing into a glistening burger. "
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Rivals
Rules
Burger
" Never post boring back-to-back selfies. "
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Post
Boring
Never
" Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it. "
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Nobody
" A fanboy's heart is filled with love, enthusiasm, and insecurity. "
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Enthusiasm
Love
" If you are someone's emergency contact - you are their person, and they are your person - there is work involved. "
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" I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15. "
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Pretty
Peaked
Sure
" If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation. "
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Die
Brain
" Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it. "
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Love
Spiritual
" I love small-business owners, and I actually love the idea of vintage clothing, but I don't get when they pretend that the Internet doesn't exist or that other customers have never been to the whole rest of the country where you can rummage around and buy the same dang belt for a buck and a half. "
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Internet
" You always feel like a hack and a fraud when you're writing. It's just how it goes. "
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" For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap. "
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" I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats. "
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