Welcome to Excerpts From My Super-Secret Diary, a new A+ feature for Silver & Gold members in which we publish for you the incomplete and/or highly personal thoughts we’ve written on paper with actual pens.
Today Riese has plucked some lines from a stack of diaries spanning the years 2008 - 2014 and is presenting them here, for you. These are not in chronological order! If you think I'm talking about you, don't worry, it's somebody else. xoxo gossip girl
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Why do I do it. Why, when nothing but temporary thrills will come of it. Because I am an animal? Because we are all animals. Because I want to feel things. Because I am a body.
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When he told me he didn't "get" why I'd ever want to "be intimate" with a woman, he essentially put a ...
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