Dearest reader, In 2017 there was hardly anything so horrific in a teenager's life than having you mother point out that the bump on your nose had become more distinct. We were, for goodness sake, living the height of the Instagram-face era: a questionable aesthetic trend, defined by the Kardashian family, that favoured high cheekbones, big lips and conveniently small, neat noses (Tolentino, Jia, 2019) – non of which I possed, least of all a pretty, little nose, but wanted o

Dearest reader, People have been talking about marriage for centuries and I have been thinking about it for years, the past four of them I have spent trying to write about it, and since August, I finally realized I should get it out of my system regardless whether it is important or not. Namenly, at 25, I have at last reached a point where people around me are getting married. My friends in particular have started to look for people to get engaged with, to make potential fia

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