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copy: The irony of the situation hadn't escaped her. She had taken years to sculpt the perfect persona with the perfect look that she shared on Instagram. She knew her hundreds of thousands of followers envied that life she showed and stayed engaged with her **because** they wanted that life too. The truth was that she wanted the perfect life she *portrayed* more than any of her fans. The fact was that despite all the perfection she shared on social media, her life was actually more of a mess than most.

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title: Last Friday I saw a spotted striped blue worm shake hands with a legless lizard.

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copy: Barbara had been _waiting_ at the table for twenty minutes. it had been twenty long and excruciating minutes. David had promised that he would be on time today. He never was, but he had promised this one time. She had made him repeat the promise _multiple_ times over the last week until she'd believed his promise. Now she was paying the price.

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title: The external scars tell only part of the story.