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An incomplete guide for staying at home

Come out, wherever you are

Emily Sanders Hopkins
Mar 14, 2020
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… but first, a quick short story (fiction)

First Date

I guess this woman is his platonic roommate. It could cramp my pursuit of him, though. Why am I hot for him exactly? I don’t know that I even am.

His house is nice, but a little messy. I am holding his baby on my lap and she is fat and sweet-faced and looking at me like, “What next?”

“What a darling!” I …

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