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What about Irene?

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👀

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Yeah, I was waiting for it to end with a “and today we celebrate our twentieth anniversary!”

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'culminating in an armed police raid on my house. But all that will have to wait for another day"

hmm.....

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I’m guessing that’s Yassine’s Lawyer Origin Story.

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“Irene’s serene demeanor” made me smile. I also was wondering, based on other output from this guest writer, if this was foreshadowing a misdemeanor......

For real, though, it’s hard to make a “this crazy thing happened to me” story fun - this was really fun! Great storytelling.

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This is more an anecdote than a story, but it was interesting enough that I read the whole thing.

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Thank you Scuba Cat, I hope I can better deliver next time

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No, it was a well written story. Maybe not quite the journalistic genre, but really good.

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No. I thought it was good!

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"I couldn’t help but be drawn in to her director’s vision" is so good.

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This was excellent Yassine, you're a fine writer. Hope to read more from you.

I must confess that I was a little more than halfway through the story before I realized it wasn't Jesse Singal writing about his punk warehouse days and slammin' parties and fighting a dude. "Damn, Jesse, I had no idea!". Oh well, I'll pay more attention to the byline next time.

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Pro tip for next time: If it's someone upset about being defamed, it's Jesse. If it's about some cool shit, it's Yassine.

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You're a cheeky bollocks 😅

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Ha! Brilliant...~

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XD

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I wanted Irene either to be Yassine’s wife today, or someone who turned out to have actually died sometime before the party.

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At the end they look up and see a poster stapled a power pole: “$10,000 Reward for Information on the Murder of Irene that happened one month ago.”

Yassine suddenly coughs up ashes.

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Somewhere in a parallel universe Yassine is cancelled by Irene following a severe #MeToo tweet storm in 2017

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I have reams of good sensible words of wisdom to offer but I will distill it down to three- Don’t get drunk

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Follow-up story about Irene needed...

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Interesting that the writer seems to find the few non-assholes in this story (Irene, men at the end) the exotic subjects. Or understandable, I suppose.

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Dissonance is exotic

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