Dispatches from a Porch Swing

Dispatches from a Porch Swing

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“It turned out it didn’t really matter all that much what drunk people from New Jersey thought of me.”

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Jen Deaderick
Jun 20, 2023
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Long, long ago, all the way back in 2015, I had a piece published by the New York Times. It was only online, not in the paper version, but it still sounds cool. I would put the link here, but I’d rather you just Googled “Jen Deaderick Katy Perry.” I really love that people can do that.

The piece got a lot of comments, many angry. I didn’t read any of th…

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