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Remember all those soul-deadening jobs where they’d make you wear some stained-up secondhand workshirt that came down to your knees and how hard you’d try to cool up the periphery in case you ran into anybody you knew? I wonder if that’s why punk and goth girls always cram so much shit on their necks and arms. Comments/Enlarge | See all


This is the epitome of “the best night of my life” in the “pregnant to a coke dealer by 18” community. Comments/Enlarge | See all






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