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R to @Ned_of_Kelly: My then-partner bought them for me for my birthday, to replace an Etsy £30 dupe pair I had been wearing. Took us all the way to the store as a surprise, and let me have a really lovely experience of being spoiled for a moment. And try as you might, you won’t sully that for me.
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R to @BootstrapCook: They knew I had been secretly in love with that whole range for a very long time, and decided to do something about it. And I have worn them permanently since because I’m terrified if I take them out I’ll bloody lose one or something. Thanks for prompting a really happy memory 🥹
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R to @BootstrapCook: And when I gave all my engagement rings to a friend to pawn months ago I also tried to give her the earrings, and she absolutely refused to let me because she knew how significant they were. So, sorry, I guess, for having a few decent people around me and a couple of nice things?
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R to @BootstrapCook: The ironic thing is (guess it’s a testament to independent Etsy jewellers): weird obsessives on here started trolling me for having ‘Tiffany’ earrings long before I actually had the real ones; and that trolling was part of the reason why my ex got them for me. So…thanks I guess?
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R to @BootstrapCook: Literally: ‘if you’re going to get a tonne of unwarranted abuse for having fake earrings, you may as well enjoy the real ones’
Y’all actually manifested that s for me; so thankyou. If you could now focus on carping about a secure income and mega book sales, I’d be v grateful!
Y’all actually manifested that s for me; so thankyou. If you could now focus on carping about a secure income and mega book sales, I’d be v grateful!
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R to @goldenlionlady: They’re blurred out because I took the photo in portrait mode, studio light, on an iPhone. Coz I look and feel like absolute s so every little soft focus helps I guess.
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R to @Sarah_zee123: All for ‘truth’ like accusing me of personally decorating a blue kitchen to make me out to be a liar, being presented with the facts, and refusing to acknowledge or apologise? Because honey, that ain’t truth. That’s a bitter sunk cost fallacy and a sheer mad gaslighting nonsense.
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R to @Rocket6165: Was ‘only’ an emotional and mental relapse; I’m still miraculously sober!! It’s been tough, but I’m lucky to have a very good support network round here who have been absolutely brilliant the last few weeks 🥹
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R to @frugally_minded: I did publish the details, several times, with receipts. For a bunch of people so utterly obsessed with documenting and analysing every single thing I say, you sure seem to ALWAYS somehow ‘miss’ the clear and evidenced answers to your ‘just asking questions’, for some reason. 🫠
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R to @Littlegiteshob: If you’re going to make (false, malicious) libellous and defamatory accusations of fraud and criminal activity, at least have the courage of your convictions to supply a name and contact for my lawyer. If you really believed your own tedious bullshit you’d stand by it, surely? 
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R to @owenk77: Most of the time I ignore it but sometimes, just sometimes, I let myself snap for a bit.
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R to @PSFennell: News just in: human beings can change their minds, views, living arrangements, likes and dislikes, financial circumstances, vices, they can have variable mental and physical health, complicated relationships, and be endlessly misquoted and set up by journalists with agendas. Huh.
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R to @Rossienante: Have repeatedly refused any offers of crowdfunded house stuff, despite having a secure home for SB being my number one priority and one I would move heaven and earth for. Always redirected people to foodbanks and good causes. And yet these horrors still lie and defame and abuse.
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R to @BootstrapCook: I’ve been slowly doing ten minutes here and there with it with an old toothbrush, bottled lemon juice, and very finely ground salt (and the odd bit of Brasso…!) over the last few weeks while I try to piece my broken head back together…