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Susan Miller Runs My Life for a Month for Cosmo
Susan Miller runs my life for Cosmo: Fact: 2019 was not working out. One week into January — in a move ripped from Legally Blonde — my boyfriend broke up with me (by email) instead of proposing (in person). Two days later, a scamster emptied my […]
The Holidays for Man Repeller
“Halloween comes earlier every year” is a thing we say with all the regularity of Halloween itself. In part this is because of how time collapses: The 12 months between my first Halloween (costume choice: bumblebee) and my second (tomato) equaled 100 percent of my lifetime. […]
The Philadelphia Eagles for InsideHook
In the last photo I have of my father, he and my mother are watching the Eagles play the Bears last November. My father, carefully buttoned into a light-blue shirt, waves toward the camera. Someone who had not known him — who did not know […]
Jeopardy for Man Repeller
Tonight, Jeopardy will crown the winner of its Tournament of Champions. Everyone knows it will likely be James Holzhauer—or else Emma Boettcher, who in June ended Holzhauer’s 32-game winning streak. The key moment, though, has already come: On Monday’s show, instead of writing an answer to the […]