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Posted by Melissa McEwan at Thursday, April 21, 2016
screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'Literally the best part of growing up in the '80s was that there was no shortage of singers telling you it was okay to be a glorious weirdo.'
screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'My childhood was basically soothing the terror of imminent nuclear war by watching MTV and internalizing I might as well be a joyous freak.'
screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'We're all gonna die anyway,' they told me, in the shadow of nuclear threat. 'Might as well put on some eyeliner and dance while we can.'
screen cap of tweet authored by me reading: 'And that message has saved me, over and over, when it turned out that life was going to go on after all.'
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