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How to Dress Like a #BamaRush TikTok Girl

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A Q&A With the Woman Who Installed These 2-Foot-Tall Address Numbers on Her House

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Celebrities, I Beg You, Stop Bragging About Your Stinky Butts

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The Exquisite Fantasy That Kim Cattrall Was Going to Space Instead of Doing the Sex and the City Revival

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An Interview With the Colorado Realtor Who’s Trying to Sell a Vandalized “Slice of Hell”

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An Interview With the Man Who Waited Five Years to Open a Mysterious Safe—and Found the Weirdest Thing Possible Inside

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“We See Everything”: A Waxer on Her Clients’ Rush to Get Ready for Hot Vax Summer

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The Great Demi Lovato Froyo Scandal of 2021 Has a Lesson for Celebrities

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I’ve Dug About 40 People Out of Avalanches. Only One Survived.

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R.I.P. Yahoo Answers, the Internet’s Loveliest Source of “Found Comedy”

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Staying Home Gave Some Black Women the Chance to Take Care of Their Own Hair

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European Travel Influencers Had a Bizarre Solution for COVID in New York

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Would the Perfect Chanel Handbag Change My Life?

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A Q&A With the Real Estate Agent Selling This Sexy Funeral Goth House in Baltimore

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My Aquaphor Addiction

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Every Celebrity Vaccine Selfie, Ranked From Worst to Best

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