An excerpt from Celery Juice, Clickbait, and Control, a memoir-in-progress. Are you all caught up?
When I started my job at the magazine eight years ago, I was deliriously happy—and lonely. So I started dating.
After a first date that was neither especially good nor bad enough to make a TikTok about, I suggested we get ice cream.
“Hey,” I said, pointing toward the shop. “Why don’t we grab a scoop?”
He glanced …
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