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The Euphoria of Elliot Page

ByRomeo Minalane

Jun 4, 2022
The Euphoria of Elliot Page

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In December 2020, after disclosing that he’s transgender, the Oscar-nominated actor and megastar of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy (Season Three out June 22) grew to change into essentially the most notorious trans man on the earth. That’s made him the goal of indescribable despise however has additionally brought him unbelievable joy. Here, in his dangle words, he talks about his childhood, his career, his transition, and his lifestyles, although now no longer necessarily in that portray.

What own I learned from transitioning? I’m capable of’t overstate the largest joy, which is in point of fact seeing yourself. I do know I look different to others, however to me I’m valid starting up to glance adore myself. It’s indescribable, because I’m valid adore, there I am. And thank God. Here I am. So the perfect joy is correct being in a do of living to in actuality feel portray, literally, valid to be portray. To accelerate out in a community of recent of us and be in a do of living to pick out in a diagram the do I didn’t in point of fact feel this fixed sensation to flit from my body, this by no manner-ending sensation of dread and anxiety and wanting out.

After I direct I couldn’t own ever imagined feeling that diagram, I suggest that with each and every sense of me.

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My dad had a cabin on the south shore of Nova Scotia with no working water or electricity. I change into obsessed with tree frogs. I’d take into tale them hop along for hours, most definitely thanks to how small they had been. I’ve noticed as an adult how nourishing and well-known it’s far for me to in actuality feel linked to nature. I need it. After I’m in those spaces, my total body will still down. My stress dissipates. I’m capable of gather mute.

I spent fairly just a few my childhood in the woods.

After I change into a tiny of child, all I mandatory my oldsters to play change into the Bodyguard soundtrack. Beloved. And Annie Lennox, Medusa.I mediate that had lots to attain with the camouflage. I’d valid peep at Annie Lennox. My mum’s music change into fairly just a few Cat Stevens and Sting. The Tragically Hip—they’re improbable. My dad change into more jazz—Shirley Horn, Ruth Brown.

I don’t mediate I ever in actuality noticed The Bodyguard. I could perhaps still take into tale it. Now I’m feeling embarrassed.

I went to a different college yearly all the arrangement by arrangement of excessive college, so I by no manner in point of fact had that single instructor mentor. After I left Halifax to switch to Toronto in grade eleven, I thought the bullying would lessen, in regard to what of us had been clearly bullying me about. And that wasn’t the case the least bit. Bullying locations you in a order the do, later, it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps own so essential unlearning to attain. If you occur to’re getting teased and made fun of and called names on a daily foundation, there’s no diagram that’s now no longer going to gather inner of you—severely while you’re already feeling so essential shame. No one even desires to open their mouth and you’re already feeling it.

Those youngsters left a total bunch of shit that I had to dig by arrangement of and unlearn. I’m certain I could perhaps elevate up a moment and one of them wouldn’t be conscious it, because it didn’t suggest one thing else to them. I’d steal to mediate they regret it now.

I frequently mandatory my mum to steal me to the college plays, even if I didn’t know what they had been about. There change into some fabricate of depart to be in locations adore that.

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I so now no longer frequently read novels, however I did valid—now no longer valid, however just a few books up to now—I read Real Existence, by Brandon Taylor. It’s improbable. He’s such an beautiful creator, it valid floors you. That I in actuality, in point of fact loved. And it’s fairly rare. I read novels more when I change into younger, in excessive college. I didn’t accelerate to university, or university, so I’m adamant and disciplined to read lots. Nonfiction, fairly essential.

My childhood most efficient buddy and I are still very, very end. His name is Designate, and what I’ve learned from him—and what’s so incredible about him—is his strength and sensitivity. Now not being insecure to share your feelings, your misfortune, to now no longer compromise who you are. Designate quarantined and came to Toronto to contend with me after my high surgical diagram, and we recorded an EP on his four-be conscious while I recovered. That’s what we had been doing—writing these tiny songs. That sound change into valid us having fun. There’s nothing better than developing things with company.

Designate’s initials are tattooed under my pleasing collarbone.

I change into a fairly serious soccer player as a child. I loved the self-discipline. I loved studying about teamwork. I loved even the more non secular gains of it—what it manner to gain and assemble empty order.

As a child, it change into sophisticated in the case of my gender. I be conscious the year the genders had been separated. I change into so distraught, so inordinately distraught. I change into crying to my mum, “Please, one more year, one more year!” After I change into fiddling with the boys—soccer, touch football, out support all the arrangement by arrangement of recess and lunch—I change into having a blast. They did let me play one more year, then I had to switch to the girls’ personnel. I looked adore the opposite boys, which I change into. I’d be on the self-discipline about to kick the ball when a ref would direct, “I don’t mediate boys are allowed to play on this personnel.” I still played soccer for years, however fairly just a few fancy for it change into now no longer there.

What else own I valid read that’s so pleasing . . . oh: Someone’s Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford. Amazing.

The response to my transition? I didn’t query it to be so big. By diagram of the categorical quality of the response, it change into what I anticipated: fancy and support from many folks and hatred and cruelty and vitriol from so many others. I came out as homosexual in 2014, and it’s different. Transphobia is correct so, so, so crude. The hatred and the cruelty is so arrangement more incessant.

I mediate when of us direct, “Oh, he’ll wish to play cis male characters now,” the feeling I gather is that the subtext is: They mediate that is at risk of be an accomplishment for me. Versus: I’m trans, I’m unfamiliar, and I wish to play those roles. After I gather asked, “Are you scared about getting typecast?” You wouldn’t direct to J-Law or Rooney Mara or any individual, are they scared about getting typecast as cis straight girls folks? However on the identical time, in spite of every thing I desire a order the do trans of us are getting solid as cis characters. No doubt.

Ace Ventura change into adore my popular film when I change into a child. I change into doing impressions. And I’ve been in movies with mountainous-problematic things. However it completely’s amusing now when of us are adore, “You’re too sensitive about jokes.” If you occur to glance support, the total stuff that’s so injurious, I suggest the ending of Ace Ventura is deeply transphobic. I change into going dwelling and staring at some sitcom with fixed homosexual jokes after college each and daily. As had been the kids who ended up being bullies.

“You’re too sensitive.” Excuse me? The stuff trans of us deal with on a day-to-day foundation? Excuse me?

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This text regarded in the SUMMER 2022 self-discipline of Esquire

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This in point of fact big dude, lower than an arm’s dimension away, change into valid screaming at me, “You faggot! Don’t glance at me! You faggot, faggot!” I couldn’t even valid accelerate, adore, I’m now no longer you. It change into the one time I’d left the resort that total day. I change into valid attempting to spoiled the freeway, and I couldn’t because it change into Sunset Boulevard and there’s web page traffic, so I made a decision in my brain—because he change into so big—that I couldn’t attain one thing else bodily. If I acknowledged one thing, he could perhaps retaliate. If I grew to change into around, that could perhaps trigger one thing else. So I thought, I’m valid going to have to wager on standing fully still and staring straight ahead.

After which sooner or later, after him yelling, “Faggot! Faggot! Faggot!” some more, he began to gallop off and I began to spoiled the freeway. After which he valid began screaming, in the help of me, “I’m gonna abolish you, you fucking faggot! I’m gonna abolish you, you fucking faggot! I’m gonna homosexual-bash you!” So I ran—I change into on my own—I without warning met a comfort retailer, and as I change into opening the door he yelled, “Here is why I desire a gun!”

Yeah, I don’t mediate of us in point of fact gather it.

Why is sensitivity weaponized? I in actuality in point of fact feel for cis males in regard to the restraints and repression and suppression that stem from the expectations of your gender. After I came out, I posted a selfie with a thank-you present, valid to portray how essential the total fancy and support supposed. And I noticed this comment—I could perhaps still very essential now no longer be the feedback, however this guy acknowledged, “Oh, yeah, as if a guy would ever write one thing sensitive adore that.” I in point of fact feel injurious for that guy. I in point of fact feel injurious that he’s been brought up in a society that equates masculinity with emotionlessness. That’s a terribly shitty formulation to dwell, because it’s going to return out in yet another route, and yet another.

I’ve by no manner worked out more in my lifestyles. Working out frequently felt adore the kind of conundrum, because it didn’t in point of fact feel pleasing. I walked and I hiked, however that change into it. The abilities of being in my body now could perhaps be so different. I’m completely zigzag. The feeling of being in point of fact engaged with it, portray, pushing it and getting stronger and gaining weight. It’s thrilling. I in point of fact feel adore a child doing it.

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I own one, two, three, four, five, six, seven . . . nine. Nine tattoos. They’re largely references to of us in my lifestyles. One is one of my most efficient company’ nicknames. One is one of my most efficient company’ heart names. I own a tiny of coffee cup, which I share with a luxurious buddy. I own company’ initials, on the total from sessions of my lifestyles when I don’t know if I’d own necessarily gotten by arrangement of them without certain folks.

spike. Spike Jonze.

wiig.

ep phone dwelling is correct a candy thing.

The be conscious turtles within reason essential a random tattoo. I attain fancy turtles.

The major tattoo I ever bought change into for Catherine Keener. It’s my nickname for her, which is c keens. That’s valid under my high pleasing shoulder. I’ve identified Keener since I change into nineteen—she’s my oldest buddy in L. A., in that total world. Keener taught me now to no longer steal bullshit, to shield my toes on the ground, to dwell my fact, and to contend with my coronary heart.

When Juno change into on the height of its recognition, all the arrangement by arrangement of awards-season time, I change into closeted, dressed in heels and the total glance—I wasn’t k, and I didn’t know pointers on how to focus on that with anybody. However I could perhaps with Keener. I change into residing in a resort by myself, and he or she came and bought me. I lived with her. For my twenty-first birthday, she had a shock celebration for me. I didn’t in point of fact know any one, so everyone wore name tags. I wore one, too. No one knew me, and they brought these amusing tiny items. It change into in point of fact candy. There are of us I met that night who are tattooed on my body.

After which additionally a memoir I valid read that is in point of fact one of essentially the most efficient things I’ve ever read is named Punch Me As a lot as the Gods, by Brian Broome. Fantastic. A. Mazing. Fantastic.

How does money trade a individual? That’s a dissertation. I’m still attempting to wrap my suggestions around it because it valid shocks me assuredly.

There are many assorted forms of every and every sex and fancy. And that’s what can develop it confusing—hence how painful all of it can probably perhaps additionally be. Esteem is navigating the likelihood of: Am I going to be capable of fancy any individual who isn’t excellent, and are they going to be capable of fancy any individual who isn’t excellent? That nonperfect individual being me. And if that fancy and grace exists in that order, that feels lots different from having sex and ignoring the below of it all, and now no longer being appropriate and proper, and being insecure to share your staunch self. I don’t mediate that will most definitely be regarded as fancy—or appropriate fancy, if that exists.

Sex can additionally valid be its dangle separate, free, fun, healing, unfamiliar, scorching, euphoric tell that has no attachment. Sex is mountainous is all I’m attempting to order.

Euphoria: Summer, it’s scorching out, and I’m valid in a white T-shirt that suits me, strolling down the freeway, shoulders support, playing the solar and the day. In the previous, that could perhaps’ve been a truly different stroll. As a change, it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps own suggestions blossoming to your suggestions, now no longer fixed feelings of shame and self-hatred.

One among my popular books ever is In the Dream Rental, by Carmen Maria Machado.

I fancy being a canine dad. I need that in my lifestyles. I don’t even know the do to launch with Mo; I’m so obsessed with him. My coronary heart breaks on the regarded as mortality at any time when I mediate of him.

Every thing that’s being acknowledged about us is the total identical shit that change into acknowledged about LGB of us: pedophiles, mentally ill, could perhaps still they be allowed in the altering rooms. It’s the identical. It’s the identical. However the politicians are announcing, Oh, shit! Here is working! And that’s what’s provoking.

There are of us in elected order of work announcing that, in point of fact, transgender of us are going to be accountable for the destroy of existence. That diploma of rhetoric is in point of fact alarming and injurious. It’s additionally never-ending misinformation—and of us steal it. The muse of gender being a binary opinion particularly in conserving with genitalia is a truly recent opinion in the case of human historic previous. We existed in each and every culture one day of historic previous! Folks don’t uncover about that fact. They’re banning youngsters from studying it. It’s all tactical.

I thought it change into now no longer doable how I’m in a do of living to in actuality feel now. The diploma of creativity that’s arrive out—valid a surge of creativity. Designate and I had been making those songs; I own valid about completed the first draft of a guide; I wrote a screenplay with my buddy B, Beatrice Brown, who did fairly just a few my tattoos.

I gather up at six. I own coffee and I on the total are attempting to write for 2 hours. I valid accelerate staunch into a portal. I sit down, and I am processing, and I’m telling a story—versus when I’d rarely ever allow myself to be conscious about it. Then I steal my canine for a terribly good stroll, and then I are attempting to write for yet another couple hours. In the afternoon, I in point of fact feel it out. Because you’re writing about intense things—now no longer only stout of feelings and trauma and difficulties, however additionally, that is the longest I’ve ever even sat with so essential of that. With the things that own came about. It’s a fascinating abilities, the real fact that writing certain things can trigger a physiological response. It’s so fascinating, the body.

I outmoded to wonder how folks had been going about their lives. I’d valid glance at of us. How attain you attain it?

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Presumably my popular thing to prepare dinner is a gigantic spread of roasted greens of all kinds. Fennel, broccoli, cauliflower. Ummm. Japanese candy potatoes, I fancy. After which brown rice, I fancy. After which I valid kinda develop some tofu in the pan, then steam or boil it—attain you know kombu? Seaweed? You boil it, and then—that is amusing—and then you if truth be told mix it all in with some tahini or one thing, and then you if truth be told roll it in the kombu. I’m telling you, it’s pleasing.

Then other times I employ adore a teenage boy. I’m adore, cereal: Real to switch. Or I gather cherish and develop a frozen burrito.

I fancy making The Umbrella Academy. I’ve learned how particular it’s far to play one character for thus long, to evolve with a family of characters. All of us own long gone by arrangement of lots. Years own long gone by, and we’ve changed and grown in our dangle ways. I fancy staring on the growth occur alongside the portray, our personalities interweaving and all of us having our dangle moments. I’m valid studying to fancy the total drag of it.

Activism, for me, feels natural and natural. It feels worse when I’m now no longer actively engaged. And I don’t mediate it stems from feeling some fabricate of tension or responsibility. I hope it comes from a order of, inherently, empathy. I steal to mediate I’m an empathetic individual.

However then on some level, yeah, activism is one thing I own to attain. I mediate we could perhaps perhaps like to exhaust all of our privilege in our dangle ways. All of us own some version of it, you know?

I’m capable of’t pinpoint a “worst” day. However when Juno change into blowing up—this sounds unheard of to of us, and I gather that of us don’t realize. Oh, fuck you, you’re notorious, and it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps own money, and you had to position on a dress, boo-hoo. I don’t now no longer realize that response. However that’s blended with: I wish of us would realize that that shit literally did nearly abolish me.

I’ve had to own masses of devil’s-recommend conversations with cis those who had been adore, “Smartly, I’m now no longer trans and I could perhaps do on a skirt!” And it’s adore, frigid. Okay. Grand. So yeah, in my early to mid-twenties, I didn’t know pointers on how to expose of us how sick I change into. I’d berate myself for it. I change into residing the lifestyles and my dreams had been coming appropriate, and all that change into going down. And yet, as an illustration, when I change into taking pictures Inception, I could perhaps fairly essential now no longer accelerate away whatever resort I’d be staying in.

I struggled with food. Intense despair, dread, severe dismay assaults. I couldn’t feature. There own been days when I’d only own one meeting, and I’d accelerate away my dwelling to switch to the meeting and wish to turn around. Now not being in a do of living to gather by arrangement of a script—could perhaps now no longer. Reading is one of my popular things to attain—I couldn’t read, couldn’t gather by arrangement of a paragraph.

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I could perhaps now no longer image myself as a girl growing old. Obviously. It change into valid adore, what’s my future? There’s now no longer a future. That’s fabricate of what it felt adore. I’d direct, verbatim: I’ve by no manner been a woman. I’ll by no manner be a girl.

Can I repeat to the suicide self-discipline among trans of us? Yeah, I’m capable of repeat deeply. And now no longer only to the very conscious, snort act of doing it however additionally certain times when I lost so essential weight or when I change into having such severe dismay assaults and collapsed more than one times—all this stuff that conveniently could perhaps, and statistically attain, lead to demise. And that’s all a manifestation of that trauma and discomfort that’s a disproportionate self-discipline for transgender of us.

There own been moments of interesting to now no longer be right here, however that change into valid the feeling that I change into left with. It wasn’t a slouch for action—rather than the ways by which I change into abusing my body, clearly. I’d glance out the window of my rental and mediate, With every thing happening pleasing now and the arrangement in which amazing it all is, that is how I in point of fact feel? And I’m twenty-two? It change into adore, I don’t know if I could perhaps attain it.

I mediate of times when of us actively had been adore, “No, it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps have to position on a dress” in very, very, very pivotal moments. I be conscious the premiere of Juno on the Toronto Worldwide Film Competition. Beforehand, doing press for Tough Candy, or when I went to Sundance for a film, I didn’t know the opinion of, adore, a stylist. I grew up working in Canada! It’s different. I dressed how I mandatory to decorate—now no longer dissimilar to now. And I be conscious going and having the article I mandatory to position on, and then working out the diploma of expectation of how cherish any individual is supposed to glance. So I acknowledged I mandatory to position on a accelerate neatly with, and Fox Searchlight change into on the total adore, “No, it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps have to position on a dress.” And they took me in a gigantic speed to lots of cherish retail outlets on Bloor Facet freeway. They had me do on a dress, and . . . that change into that. After which the total Juno press, the total portray shoots—Michael Cera change into in slacks and sneakers. I look support on the photos, and I’m adore . . .?

And it’s easy for folks to roll their eyes, however you know what? No. That change into in point of fact extremely, extremely fucked up. I shouldn’t have to treat it adore valid this thing that came about—this a tiny bit fashioned thing. It’s adore: No. No matter me being trans! I’ve had those who’ve apologized about things: “Sorry, I didn’t know, I didn’t know on the time.” It doesn’t matter! It doesn’t matter if I’m trans or cis. Hundreds cis girls folks dress how I dress. That has nothing to fucking attain with it.

It’s in point of fact amusing, since the guide announcement, I’ve had three random, suspiciously timed apologies pop up. Attention-grabbing timing.

Folks, severely teenage girls, in point of fact replied to that character, Juno. The dresses—which change into valid me taking a producer to outmoded-dresses retail outlets in Vancouver. The vibe—one thing that change into, if now no longer nonexistent . . . it change into recent for a film that reached the audience it reached, and with her because the title character. It related to my queerness and my transness. After that it’s doubtless you’ll perhaps own that film own the success it had, and the major, major income, between the film and the soundtrack—and then you if truth be told fucking squash that every and each one away. You squash it. So that you’re benefiting enormously from this character that linked with of us, and then you if truth be told attain that. It’s immoral.

I wish I could perhaps return and abilities it now. As me.

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Why are of us making it more challenging? It in point of fact breaks my coronary heart. It in point of fact breaks my coronary heart. That’s literally all we’re attempting to advise. That’s what’s so amusing to me. When of us direct, Murder this. Murder that. No, they gather four more comedy specials and own a jillion followers! The of us getting canceled are the trans those which could perhaps be struggling, or killing themselves, or murdered.

I on the total gain that it’s the media that does it. Folks can in actuality be communicating in a diagram that isn’t aggressive, however then without warning it’s all about developing this tension, and then this individual doubles down on that! And, adore: No. It’s a dialog—which, by the diagram, is what you’re announcing you’re inquiring for.

Jokes own an affect that hurts of us. I realize that of us could perhaps mediate it doesn’t. I realize that they’re now no longer that manner to. However: It’s now no longer a joke. It’s now no longer a joke. You deem what you’re announcing. You deem it. It’s now no longer a joke. They deem it. It’s clearly now no longer a joke. And all we’re announcing is: Are you able to valid please hear and realize the damage that it causes? That’s all we’re attempting to order. That’s literally all we’re attempting to order. After which we gather inundated with hatred for announcing it. However I’m sorry: You’re those who don’t wish to own the dialog. Youare those who are so sensitive, who can’t address of us announcing, Howdy, are you able to now no longer attain that?

I fancy hockey. I don’t in point of fact own a personnel, I valid fancy staring at it. After I lived in L. A., I’d accelerate to Kings games and cheer for the Kings. However if Toronto came, I’d cheer for each and every. I change into at a sports bar last night staring on the NBA playoffs, Memphis versus Minnesota. I’m now no longer any individual who’s a die-arduous fan of a personnel. Is that unheard of? I employ that manner to change into one. Yearly I direct that is the year I’m selecting a personnel and I’m staying with that personnel. And I by no manner attain it.

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I could perhaps still skate. It’s been ages, however I’d be fine. I change into most definitely on skates at three. On a pond. Aid when things iced over.

Liverpool is my mum’s personnel. She is conscious of the total avid gamers, the coach, the drama, every thing. Her number-one bucket-checklist thing change into to switch to a Liverpool sport. I change into doing press for Season One among Umbrella Academy in London. There change into a Liverpool sport. I reached out to the personnel and acknowledged I mandatory to raise my mum to a sport. They had been so extremely welcoming and kind. I brought my mum over and brought aback her. Getting to take into tale her be at that sport change into in actuality one of essentially the most absolute particular moments in my lifestyles. In the starting, when everyone appears to be singing, she’s valid swaying and singing. I own it on video. When the sport change into over, they took her down to glance the self-discipline and the seats the do the avid gamers sit. She bought to meet the coach. Seeing my mum joyful makes me so joyful.

Alexander Chee’s—perchance you’ve read it— Write an Autobiographical Unusual? Ohhhhhh. It’s so pleasing.

My mother change into born in the fifties. She change into a minister’s daughter. You realize? She if truth be told didn’t desire me to be unfamiliar. That’s the do there change into fairly just a few self-discipline, for years. Unless I change into in my twenties. However I fancy her so essential, and I fully realize, and forgive. I own a mother who loves me, and now no longer all individuals has that.

Forgiveness? Depends on the self-discipline. There are a couple of us I don’t forgive. I don’t know what this thing is ready frequently having to forgive. I don’t wish them damage, however I shouldn’t in point of fact feel obligated or forced to forgive them. Per chance one day, however there are a couple of us I don’t, and I don’t in point of fact feel injurious about it. And there are other those who, completely. No doubt.

Attain you know the guide Sever up Enamel, by Tanya Tagaq? It’s one of essentially the most efficient things I’ve ever read. Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic. Fantastic. The last two pages of her guide are valid this total pleasing portion about: I don’t wish to forgive. However I forgive myself. I’ll rob it up each and every so frequently valid to read that.

Kids? No. I in point of fact feel adore I’ve additionally had to contend with myself so essential. I’m obsessed with my canine. That’s my child. I’m pleasing with that. I suggest, if I met any individual who had a child, I’m now no longer fully closed off to the foundation that perhaps when I’m older, I could perhaps undertake a child who’s older, you know. However no.

For me, euphoria is exclusively the act of waking up, making my coffee, and sitting down with a guide and being in a do of living to read. I do know that could perhaps sound unheard of, however I’m capable of’t stress sufficient the diploma of discomfort and fight that I change into experiencing that bought in the diagram of every thing. How could perhaps it now no longer?

There’s a universality to that. We’ve all skilled the same versions. It’d be so good, the increasingly more we are capable of brand how essential we’re all in this collectively. The identical fabricate of stuff that comes at me is now no longer now no longer affecting cis of us and making cis of us be confined in spaces which could perhaps be anticipated of them. This affects us all.

Dinner tonight? Real ask. I attain own some veggies and stuff. I own fennel, broccoli. . . .

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