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Jun 8Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

"After getting up, silently removing the Hole CD from the player and hiding it under a book on Wicca, I took stock of my surroundings."

Too perfect

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I'm Miss World

Somebody kill me

Kill me pills

No one cares, my friends

My friends

[Verse 2]

I'm Miss World

Watch me break

And watch me burn

No one is listening, my friends

Rough man ...rough

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Jun 14Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

I loved this so much. I was punk- and goth-adjacent in the 90s. We must be about the same age. I can *see* teenage you, at the periphery of my existence, one of those guys whose names you know from seeing them around at the same shows.

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Were you in Auckland??

I'm 47 now...

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Jun 14Liked by Obsidian Blackbird.

Haha, no, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, but reading this I specifically remembered a young man I used to see around back then. I’m 49.

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AH!!!!

Well NZ may as well be on the moon… but there was similarities - through pop and music culture …

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...Hwat?! this is hilarious! Sorry, didn't mean to laugh about your experience with tattooed-satanist-pimp but, you did talk in the car like regular humans with witchy-chin-wikkan-gal so, in the grand scheme of things, it's your fault for falling for it! (nah, just kidding! love the alternative lifestyle references!)

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Thanks! What do you mean Talk in the Car?

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You wrote that you and the girl ended up talking in the car. It sounded uncannily ordinary compared to the rest

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AH yes... that was the scaryest part. most Horny red head witches are Human after all... once they are satisfied... but thats a rare thing...

I fell for everything. I was in there drinking life... now Im doing alot of gardening... still recovering :)

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Gripping

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Thanks :)

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Penthouse Letters, retro NZ edition

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AHAH. Come on ! It was nothing like those. And it was Penthouse FORUM not letters

It would class as a Penthouse STORY. One of the boring ones without much sex.

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