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i hate parties

  • Writer: Carrie Xue
    Carrie Xue
  • 3 days ago
  • 1 min read

I went to a party last weekend and realized halfway through that everyone was performing. The girls posing for pictures they’ll delete later, the guys laughing too loudly at jokes that weren’t funny.


I felt like I was floating above the room watching a bunch of strangers wearing masks.


Maybe growing up is just realizing how often people pretend.

 
 
 

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