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Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.

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Sloane Crosley
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 3
Essayist
Journalist
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