Welcome to Excerpts From My Super-Secret Diary, a new A+ feature for Silver & Gold members in which we publish for you some of our incomplete and/or highly personal thoughts we’ve written down, usually with actual pens. But today, Carmen is sharing excerpts from her secret Tumblr, all of which happen to be excerpts from her secret Tumblr that you've never heard her read at A-Camp and never will. But she does that, too. Just in case you wanna know.
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i didn’t really have any expectations for this place when i moved here, only expectations for me, which might explain why i have trouble deciding whether or not it’s working out so far. all i have now are my new life resolutions: learn how to do yoga, take eli to the park every m...
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