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Watching my Housemate Impersonate Herself in Real Time

Rivka Wolf
Fourth Wave
Published in
4 min readNov 25, 2023

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About a month ago, my housemate came home with plastic nails the length of her pinky finger. I thought that was awfully strange. My housemate is a Master’s student in an Art program. On her off hours, she works for a construction company. Why would she want to…

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