"Oh, F this."

—Said everyone after realizing the answer to "what do you want to be when you grow up?" is not a bitter old catatonic booby.

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One time I was asked: if you could go back and do it all over again, what's one trap you'd avoid? This is my answer… https://t.co/r1qcYQJLdr

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I just met a Trump supporter. That is all.

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RT @ben_rosen: REPUBLICANS: who can be sure about what happened 36 years ago ALSO REPUBLICANS: when the founding fathers put a comma in th…

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Also going to #NYC tomorrow to lunch with @SGFrerich and @lisadimona and can’t wait to Insta-embarrass them the ent… https://t.co/0pDU46Lfki

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#currentsituation: Eating four cheese ravioli at @Maggianos in KOP because NOTHING makes me feel more at home.

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I started The Middle Finger Project in 2009 because I was one of the few people I knew who didn't want what everybody else did: the "stable" job, the big wedding, the two point five babies, the perfect house. Instead, I wanted to travel the world, do work that lit me up, have interesting conversations, marvel at new experiences, and be able to say that I lived in a way that was true to me—even if it was unconventional.

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